a sense of true belonging...

“The mystic Thomas a Kempis said that when you go out into the world, 

you return having lost some of yourself. Until you learn 

to inhabit your alone-ness, the lonely distraction and noise of society 

will seduce you into false belonging, with which you will only become empty and weary. 

 When you face your alone-ness, something begins to happen. 

Gradually, the sense of bleakness changes into a sense of true belonging.”

 

~John O'Donohue, 

poet, priest, intuitive mystic

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