Belonging

© Christina Angquico
  

 When we are free of mental concepts and our senses are awake, the sounds, smells, images, and vibrations we experience connect us with all life everywhere. It is not my pain, it is the earth's pain. It is not my aliveness but simply life - unfolding and intense, mysterious and beautiful. By meeting the changing dance of sensation with Radical Acceptance, we discover our intrinsic belonging to the world. We are "no thing" - not limited to any passing experience - and "everything," belonging to the whole.

- Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance