Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home

Many take the path well-worn, but they are only given a half-lived life.

Let us keep returning to that uncomfortable silence and allow ourselves to be shaped by our yearning for answers.

In dreamwork, there is a complex alchemy that brews in our not-knowing, which is essential to our becoming worthy of a dream’s revelation.

As we replenish our inner scarcities, we are helping to create a culture that values and provides for its visionaries and outcasts.

This reciprocal relationship with the land upon which we dwell is so essential to our practice of belonging. For those who live in urban centres, it is important to adopt even a small patch of green, whether it’s on a balcony or rooftop or in a community garden plot, and begin to learn its ways. Learning might even begin with something as quiet as

Estés, Clarissa Pinkola, In the House of the Riddle Mother: The Most Common Archetypal Motifs in Women’s Dreams,

We are being called to stop turning away from ugliness, to witness the shattering, so that we can consciously participate in the reconstitution of a new world.

He wanted to feel as if the land wanted to be developed, rather than asserting his control upon it.

When you go to a party, instead of letting the fear of fitting in overcome you, practice wondering instead if anyone you meet might need belonging.