Finding Home (forwarded)

[Guest guest]

I got permission from Gordon Rosenberg to post this over from his

[OneEssence] group, as it seemed particularly resonant considering the

discussion we've been having. Enjoy.

 

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Today I want to speak about " home " and how we may find it. Many of us

spend our entire lives searching for home ... for the place we really

belong. Until we find that place, we may be frustrated at our

inability to be happy in this world, to be who we are, etc. It seems

that finding home is mostly a matter of being comfortable in one's

body and being able to express oneself as one truly is.

 

I searched for many years for this sense of home. Finally, perhaps

when I gave up looking and settled into my surroundings at the time,

I discovered this home I'd been seeking. Of course, I've still moved

many times after that. Maybe I'm not done moving yet, in my quest to

have the perfect surroundings as well. But I had discovered that

being home had very little to do with external surroundings or with

how long one stays in one place. Home, for me, is what I feel deeply

inside myself, and how happy I am with myself. Home is, literally,

with me where I am in each moment.

 

Once one discovers that one can be `at home' in a variety of places,

maybe this is when one knows that home is eternal and internal,

rather than a matter of external reality. Does this mean we must be

comfortable just anyplace? I don't think so. I know it doesn't mean

this for me. I've continued to search for the place where my body

felt the most comfortable, and where I could best do my work in the

world. It's okay to want these things. In fact, I believe it's what

we're intended to do once we've found we're at home inside the body,

that we don't need to do anything more to discover home and

satisfaction.

 

The sense of home of which I speak comes here with us; it's to be

rediscovered. It's never left us; may have hidden from us for a time,

but it's never left us. I spent a lifetime searching for home and

happiness, before I found them within me. Through both hard work and

fruitless searching, I began to realize that these things were

following me around, waiting for me to recognize them. And I began to

see that I could have them fully anytime I allowed it.

 

My home is my happiest place. I'm there now whenever I want to be. I

don't need to do anything in particular to access this place – just

slow down and let it access me. Home comes to me when I let it come

to me, and not when I try really hard to find it. Home is who I am at

my core, who I've always been, and who I'll always be. It has nothing

to do with the search for better physical surroundings, though

there's nothing wrong with seeking them. In my many travels, I've

discovered that my home has always been dormant inside me, and that

I've seen glimpses of it from time-to-time over the years.

 

For example, there was when I learned to meditate and realized there

were many voices inside me – some troubled voices which needed to

clear out, and other wise voices which had important messages for me.

As I listened to these voices, and cleared the ones which needed to

clear, I began to realize that voices are only a natural part of our

reality here (at least we learn to listen to and clear them). I began

to realize that voices needed to be there, just as all else in this

third dimensional world needs to be here. It's just the way things

are! But once I stopped listening to those voices and giving them

more credence than they deserved, I began to break through the

illusion that I couldn't be happy here – voices or not. I realized

that beneath the voices, and the illusion, I was already home, and

that happiness would follow as soon as I began to accept this.

 

Today, I'm living where I want to be living, I'm doing work I love

doing, I'm surrounded by wonderful people who both provide support

for my process and benefit from the support I provide them. I have

all I need to be happy. But mainly I've discovered that happiness is

inside me, that I've always been home, and that there's nowhere else

to be. As I say in my favorite personal quotation, my own mantra, if

you will: " There's nowhere to go and nothing to do – all we need to

know is inside us. "

 

That's it; home is where the heart is. In fact, it's in the heart.

Once you truly discover your home, you may live there forever.

 

Namaste,

Gordon

 

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[Guest guest]

The adage: " Home is where the heart is. " is literal.

Inner peace at the fourth chakra, is the real home.

rusty

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" Caroline Abreu " <nrgbalance

 

Wednesday, August 22, 2001 9:03 AM

Finding Home (forwarded)

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