Your Longing is Not a Problem. It's Holy.
Caitlin Dafni
To be fully human is to feel this longing—not just for a lover, a home, or a purpose, but for something we can’t quite name—because in doing so we feel the distance, and therefore the meeting, between the divine and the human, the infinite and the embodied.
When we repress our longing, we numb ourselves—not just to pain, but to pleasure. We become afraid of wanting too much. We associate longing with lack. We try to fix it, fill it, solve it.
But our longing does not want to be solved. It wants to be felt.
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