Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home

In this chapter we’ve met a few of the unwelcomed guests that, when respectfully welcomed, reveal a concealed wisdom.

we have gone from considering our fundamental nature to be limitless and unknowable to nothing more than corporeal elements.

that psyche and nature are intrinsic. There is a conversational relationship between the inner and outer worlds, a dynamic reciprocity which can be strengthened by our tending to their equivalence.

All of this intimacy with the place where we live came from wondering, which is the invitation to mystery to reveal itself on its own time.

exiling ourselves can also hurt others.

We work in tandem with mystery, feeling its rhythms awaken in our bone-memory. As the hands work, the mind is stilled and a greater listening is engaged as we drop down into the deep rhythm of devotion, where the whole world is in communion. The ferns unfurl, the daffodils trumpet, the rosebuds fatten, and the song of creation can be heard.

Whether through dreams or ‘gap time’ in our schedules, creativity is something that natures through us when we give it the room it needs. “It takes a lot of time to be a genius,” wrote Gertrude Stein, “you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.”

Like an inner earth, yin is the soil in which we gestate our dreams, refine our intuition, listen to our bodies, and come into the stillness of our centre. When actions arise from the receptive still point they have real meaning. Ideas that emerge from this level of imagination serve more than the individual: they serve the great ecosystem from whi

In the act of connecting to archetypes we feel the spark of vitality, a hint of life, a tiny becoming.

like any continuum, the opposites are always in a conversation with each other.