Expansion

"The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To dig deeper into the self, to go underground, is sometimes necessary, but so is the other route of getting out of yourself, into the larger world, into the openness in which you need not clutch your story and your troubles so tightly to your chest. Being able to travel in both ways matters, and sometimes the way back into the heart of the question begins by going outward and beyond. This is the expansiveness that sometimes comes literally in a landscape or that tugs you out of yourself in a story." —Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

This is so beautifully written and follows the shift that is happening in my spirit. The shift to let go of my biography and intimate relationship with suffering. I have been digging deep inside myself for many years now. Maybe it's time to go out and see just how big and wonderful this world is. Maybe it's time to be tugged out of my story and experience life with more ease. Mama ocean is calling me like never before.