Daily Om: The word "home" has a wide variety
of connotations. To some, home is merely a place where basic needs are
addressed. To others, home is the foundation from which they draw their
strength and tranquility. Still, others view home as a place inexorably
linked to family. Yet all these definitions of home imply somewhere we
can be ourselves and are totally accepted.
There, we feel safe enough to
let down our guard, peaceful enough to really relax, and loved enough
to want to return day after day. However, these qualities need not be
linked to a single space or any space at all. Home is where the heart is
and can be the locale you live in, a community you once lived in, or
the country where you plan to live someday. Or home can be a feeling you
carry inside yourself, wherever you are.
The process of evolution can require you to undergo transformations that
uproot you. Moving from place to place can seem to literally divide you
from the foundations you have come to depend on ... read more>>>...