Quotes About Belonging

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. John Donne, Meditation XVII

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore he belongs to the world.

If you can't live in the land you love, love the land you're in.

Conformity is the enemy of friendship

We make things so efficiently that they're all disposable; none of them endure, none can belong to us for long before they end up on the scrap heap.

Love is the feedback cycle of longing, belonging, loss.

But people aren't alone, and they never have been.

Maybe they're not scared of different. Maybe they're scared of same. If we turn out to be too much like them, who can they be?

What you love more than your own life must finally belong to you. What you come to know, better than you know your own way home, is yours.

inhabit that place. Wherever

the country's bean curve. Or else they were that mode: the fat, middle part of the graph that fell away to nothing on both coasts. They'd become an alien species to him, although he was one of them, by habit and birth.

With all those places to live? How come nobody's anywhere?

My parents would say something to me and I would feel embraced by the sounds of their words. Those sounds said: I am speaking with ease in Spanish. I am addressing you in words I never use with los gringos. I recognize you as someone special, close, like no one outside. You belong with us. In the family.

In fact, the best of modern theology is revealing a strong "turn toward participation," as opposed to religion as mere observation, affirmation, moralism, or group belonging. There is nothing to join, only something to recognize, suffer, and enjoy as a participant.

His Kingship, precisely because it is so broad, so total, is doomed to be rejected by anybody who is still into tribalism, or small belonging systems. We don't really like the big Kingdom if it gets in the way of our smaller kingdoms, and it always does.

Your True Self is that part of you that knows who you are and whose you are, although largely unconsciously. Your False Self is just who you think you are—but thinking doesn't make it so.

It really works very well, but the trouble is that it feels so godly that much, if not most, religion is a belonging system more than a search for intimacy with God. Jesus was not into tribal religion, groupthink, and loyalty tests. Much of the institutional church is into them, however, and always has been. It works too well to call it into question. It holds us together and that feels like salvation, even if it is a very deteriorated form.

Until you meet a benevolent God and a benevolent universe, until you realize that the foundation of all is love, you will not be at home in this world.

I do not want to belong to a religion that cannot kneel.

This new coherence, a unified field inclusive of the paradoxes, is precisely what gradually characterizes a second-half-of-life person. It feels like a return to simplicity after having learned from all the complexity. Finally, at last, one has lived long enough to see that "everything belongs,"4 even the sad, absurd, and futile parts.

Everything finally belongs, and you are a part of it. This knowing and this enjoying are a good description of salvation.

On a man's journey, everything has its place. Our failures, heartbreaks, defeats, and victories; our wounds, dreams, and passions; our stops and our starts-all have a place in our story, and all have a place in our transformation from shadow men to real men. Everything has meaning, and everything belongs.

Your True Self is that part of you that knows who you are and whose you are, although largely unconsciously.

but we are the Body of Christ. "Christ" is not Jesus