Saying Hello to Here

"What is home?"

~ Pádraig Ó Tuama

Daron LarsonMarch 7, 2017Pádraig Ó Tuama, Krista Tippett, poetry, strangers, On Being, uncertainty, Jonny McEwen, present, clarity, belonging, equanimityComment

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

Practice in LifeDaron LarsonFebruary 7, 2015Mary Oliver, poetry, belonging, life, death, mortality, time, memento moriComment

We Forget

"We are not at home in the world because we imagine it is as we have become, full of nothing but yearning and forgetting and hoping for something so raw we can't describe it."

~ Simon Van Booy

Daron LarsonDecember 22, 2014Simon Van Booy, home, yearning, belonging, Lorenzo Mattotti, stories, childhood, growing up, aging, uncertainty, confusionComment

All Those Years

Inside everyone
is a great shout of joy
waiting to be born.

~ David Whyte

Daron LarsonDecember 10, 2014David Whyte, silence, self/other, belonging, solitude, loneliness, listening, time, maturity, growing up, poetry, mind, understanding, uncertainty, identity, perfection, acceptanceComment

Where the Other Losers Live

Wherever you’re from sucks,
and wherever you grew up sucks

~ Erin Belieu

Daron LarsonDecember 10, 2014Erin Belieu, poetry, pretense, writing, home, belongingComment

Where Hate Won't Grow

There’s a place in my brain
where hate won’t grow.

~ Naomi Shihab Nye

Daron LarsonSeptember 27, 2014Naomi Shihab Nye, poetry, hate, love, family, cruelty, society, belonging, suffering, Antony Gormley, memory, conflict, identityComment

Strengthen Emotional Warmth

One of the things I’ve come to appreciate about mindfulness strategies is the way some core internal obstacles can be unraveled without necessarily needing to solve a related narrative puzzle.

Starting Over

Children live;
adults narrate.

Daron LarsonJune 4, 2013belonging, childhood, family, growing up, narrative, observations, storytelling, uncertaintyComment

Natural Community

Daron LarsonJanuary 18, 2013Buddhism, Sasaki Roshi, Stephen Schettini, belonging, community, constraints, fundamentalism, monastic, religion, vulnerabilityComment

What Can You Call Your Own

Daron LarsonJuly 19, 2012Brain Pickings, Henry Miller, belonging, home, identityComment

Little Bird

Daron LarsonMay 16, 2012Brain Pickings, animation, belonging, community, freedom, self/otherComment

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

Daron LarsonJanuary 15, 2012David Whyte, belonging, compassion, enlightenment, feeling, gone, grief, home, imagination, loneliness, self/other, yearningComment

Love You All

When it's my time to go
I need you to know
I love you all

~ Cloud Cult

Daron LarsonJune 23, 2011Cloud Cult, belonging, childhood, growing up, love, metta, music, parentingComment

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.