Belonging includes understanding our histories, addressing our conditioning, facing our shadows, and loving ourselves, each other, everything. We belong to it all. Sometimes we cling to the harmony of belonging — to avoid the inevitable challenges and despair of belonging to each other (aka bypass). And sometimes we get lost in the complexity of belonging — sidelining the truth of our inherent interconnection for some point in time when we've finally finished grappling with our fraught past and present. This is the paradox of absolute truth (we are not separate) and relative truth (we are not the same).
Sebene Selassie
Sebene Selassie is a teacher & author who who guides people to remember and trust their belonging. She offers courses, workshops and retreats online and in person and teaches on the Ten Percent Happier meditation app. Her first book, "You Belong: A Call for Connection" is published by HarperOne.