Why Not Get Started
I know, you never intended to be in this world.
But you're in it all the same.
So why not get started immediately.
~ Mary Oliver
Where the Other Losers Live
Wherever you’re from sucks,
and wherever you grew up sucks
~ Erin Belieu
Where Hate Won't Grow
There’s a place in my brain
where hate won’t grow.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
Feeling Slightly Out of It Most of the Time
"actually, it may be that just being yourself as a human being means feeling slightly out of it most of the time. And that a form of enlightenment is to understand that you'll never feel quite at home in the world and you're not meant to, because your sense of compassion for the rest of creation and for others depends on your understanding of exile — how far a creature, especially a human creature, can feel from true parentage, from their true inheritance, from their true home."
~ David Whyte
Belonging, Blooming, and Beginning Again
If worries were stones that could be polished by rolling around repeatedly in our minds, one of the shiniest rocks in my tumbler would have to be wondering where I really belong.
Wherever We Are
How can we ignore the similarity
between borrowing and owning?
Is it possible not to notice that
home is wherever we are?