Coming Home to Yourself

Last night, before an audience of about a hundred, I spoke about coming home—finding the reason for your being.  Pat Shapiro, author of the book I’m featured in, asked the right questions to get me thinking.  Coming home is a complex concept that deserves much reflection.  It’s not that you simply wake up one morning and know what you want to do for the rest of your life, or even, what it is that you feel most passionate about.  Of course it does involve those things, but more than anything, I think, it involves acceptance of and compassion for yourself. 

And that, I believe, is why coming home to yourself is so very challenging and elusive.

”No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” –Eleanor Roosevelt

”It’s not in the eyes of others that I’m wary of but my own. –Noel Coward

”Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.” –Emily Dickenson

Enjoy your day!