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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.
Courage can be muscular and insistent, but courage can also be quiet and subtle. And it can be both. The courage I care most about cultivating in myself and helping to inspire in others is the courage to live authentically.
The experience of epiphany is, more than anything, an act of radical belonging: in its midst we learn that confusion is a symptom of over-steeping in the known, a failure of curiosity. We discover that true freedom—that sudden sensation of clear-seeing—is achieved not through isolation, not by stepping-away and seeing anew, but by climbing into the palm of what beckons from beyond and finding we've always lived there.
