belonging / community / attachment
“My experience of letting go feels very much like being a trapeze artist. Much like the moment when the breath is completely exhaled, the trapeze artist has a moment when they are suspended in mid-air. My understanding is that they have to let go of one bar and wait in mid-air for the next swinging bar to reach them. If they hold on to the cu
... See morei heard this idea of nonattachment - it is like gripping onto a marker. we can grip super tight with our hands turned down, when we let go, the marker falls. nonattachment is like having an open palm with the marker sitting on top. it is free to go if it chooses but we are holding it all the same. this helps me understand how i can care deeply and
... See morewhat do i uncover when i dont move? belonging vs rootedness/ how to belong when you are unrooted? belonging can exist in unrootedness when time is viewed as cyclical, and life is viewed as relational and rhythmic. what things do we learn about a place when we root? the change in light in a room at different points in the year
watching the change of
... See moreattachment to ideas of who i am / things i want / growing up feels like releasing those attachments and at the same time a piece of me feels like that is giving up on a dream. how do we weigh these?
a sense of belonging is something that one can attain only by making an active commitment to the community of one’s own accord, and not simply by being here.
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
stillness as resistance - resists individualism and capitalism. by being still we create roots, rely on community, live sustainably
The word ‘belonging’ holds together the two fundamental aspects of life: being and longing, the Longing of our being and the Being of our longing. Belonging is deep; only in a superficial sense does it refer to our external attachment to people, places and things.
John O'Donohue • Eternal Echoes: Exploring Our Hunger To Belong
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