belonging / community / attachment
coincidentia positorum : (an alchemical term) the union of opposites; you can’t understand anything unless you simultaneously grok what it is and what it isn’t. By a mere shift in perspective, a thing’s opposite comes into focus, and the opposites melt into a new whole. This has many symbolic expressions: the hermaphrodite, soul/luna,
... See morelife exists in the contradictions. god flourishes in the contradictions. everything is inherently dual natured which is what makes it beautiful
To let go, when you know you have to is like choosing both grief and hope. Hope that you have control over your life, hope that there is something that is more in alignment for you out there. But you are giving up the possibility of the known joy. There must have been something you are letting go of that is meaningful and beautiful. Letting go, for
... See more“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 current
... See morestillness as resistance - resists individualism and capitalism. by being still we create roots, rely on community, live sustainably
i 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 moreThe 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
what 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 morein a quick note, awe feels foundational to my life. as i believe god is love and nature, creation, and connection are expressions of this pure love, awe feels like my most sincere expression of gratitude