Yearning / longing
To wait for something is to value it, to want it, to yearn for it, but to face its absence, its attainment forestalled by time and circumstance. All true waiting — which is different from abstinence, delayed gratification, and other forms of self-discipline — has an element of helplessness to it and is therefore training ground for mastering the... See more
Maria Popova • The Marginalian
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
I really, really want to______________.
At the heart of exile, we must finally encounter the longing we have hidden in our own hearts. Longing is an impulse, born out of what is missing from us which we ache to return to, even if we’ve never known it directly. It aches too, for our homecoming.
Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home
“Longing is nothing without its dangerous edge, that cuts and wounds us while setting us free and beckons us exactly because of the human need to invite the right kind of peril. The foundational instinct that we are here essentially to risk ourselves in the world, that we are a form of invitation to others and to otherness, that we are meant to
... See morePrayer is the voice of longing; it reaches outwards and inwards to unearth our ancient belonging. Prayer is the bridge between longing and belonging. Longing is always at its most intense in the experience of vulnerability…
https://rhfoerger.wordpress.com/2019/09/20/prayer-a-bridge-between-longing-and-belonging/
Langston Hughes: “Harlem”
poetryfoundation.org
When we incarnate, the soul is exiled from the Beloved like a reed plucked from the reedbed—and longing is our yearning to be reunited. It is also the sound of our being called homeward. Sophia knows the pattern of your fate and is calling you toward the life you long for, and that life is also longing for you. Resonance is that overlap between
... See moreToko-pa Turner • The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams
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