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“One of the deepest longings of the human soul is to be seen.”

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“You travel certainly, in every sense of the word. But you take with you everything that you have been, just as the landscape stores up its own past. Because you were once at home somewhere, you are never an alien anywhere.”

Home Nature Longing Belonging Hospitality Celtic Spirituality

Book:Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong

Source: Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong

“The beauty of being human is the capacity and desire for intimacy. Yet we know that even those who are most intimate remain strange to us. Like children, we often “make strange” with each other.”

Love Friendship Relationship Solitude Longing Intimacy Belonging Communion Divine Love Aloneness

Book:Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong

Source: Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong

“Perhaps your hunger to belong is always active and intense because you belonged so totally before you came here. This hunger to belong is the echo and reverberation of your invisible heritage. You are from somewhere else, where you were known, embraced and sheltered. This is also the secret root from which all longing grows. Something in you knows, perhaps remembers, that eternal belonging liberates longing into its surest and most potent creativity. This is why your longing is often wiser than your conventional sense of appropriateness, safety and truth... Your longing desires to take you towards the absolute realization of all the possibilities that sleep in the clay of your heart; it knows your eternal potential, and it will not rest until it is awakened.”

Inspirational Longing

Book:Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong

Source: Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong

“The human heart is a theater of longing.”

Love Nature Community Longing Belonging Communion Interdependence Celtic Spirituality Dependant Origination

Book:Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong

Source: Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong

“Nothing in creation is ever totally at home in itself. ... It is the deepest intimacy which is nevertheless infused with infinite distance.”

Love Longing Oneness Communion Celtic Spirituality Spiritual Seeking

Book:Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong

Source: Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong

“This breakage within us is what makes us human and vulnerable. There is nothing more sinister than someone whose mind seems to be an absolute circle; there is a helpless coldness and a deadly certainty about such a presence.”

Love Spirituality Longing Vulnerability Sensitivity Celtic Humanness Celtic Spirituality

Book:Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong

Source: Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong