The word belonging vibrates, sonorous and profound. Almost onomatopoeic in nature. It strikes at a feeling located deep within our psyche. Its absence leaves us bereft, fluttering fragile and unmoored in the wind. The warmth of its presence suffuses our body, mind and spirit with a sense of all being well in the world. How often do we willingly sacrifice this feeling in the service of duty, work and rationality? Belonging creates a web that supports our existence and thriving. We ignore it at our peril. Whoever or whatever that insinuate that searching for belonging smacks of weakness or neediness are crying out in a wilderness of their own.
Allow yourself to love and seek belonging, whatever form that it may take.
Remember to return to belonging:
To yourself
Love after Love
(Excerpt)
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You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved youall your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
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-Derek Walcott
And to the Universe
“A human being is part of the whole world, called by us “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The striving to free oneself from this delusion is the one issue of true religion. Not to nourish the delusion but to try to overcome it is the way to reach the attainable measure of peace of mind.”
– From a letter written by Albert Einstein to a grieving father.
