You never know what could help pull someone back to reality. A smile. A random text. Remembering a detail. Asking a question. Little things ripple. Strive to be an anchoring presence.
instagram.comYou never know what could help pull someone back to reality. A smile. A random text. Remembering a detail. Asking a question. Little things ripple. Strive to be an anchoring presence.
Not-at-home-ness could be the place from which you finally hear the call to be yourself.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
He knew that he had to be connected somewhere, grounded somewhere, since everything in his life had disappeared. All
John Townsend • Safe People: How to Find Relationships That Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren't
We need to go further into the somebody to tend to the pieces left behind until we see there are no pieces (and all of the pieces at once)
“you” does not = a body or personality. Its a bigger entityt that is itself a piece of something much larger (spirit, life force etc.) - we might call that bigger thing “home”
Ram Dass - “you’re on earth in a
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