"We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started...and know the place for the first time" T.S. Elliot
I found this quote as i looked through books in the Bangalore airport. It caught my eye and it still sticks with me. Coming back to the states, caught dead in winter i find myself longing to return to India. Return to this place where i felt a real connection to something bigger. Sometimes it helps to leave the places where we find the most inspiration. In our time away we are able to grow out of the boundaries we set up around ourselves. Experience new things; break down the old and make a way for the new. Change is never easy, but it is necessary especially in terms of spiritual growth. So this quote seems to be saying, break away from the places where you feel the most comfort. Explore. In doing so you will inevitably grow because you will learn from the good and the bad, but in the end you shall find yourself back at the start. And it isn't until you have taken the risks involved in growth and change that you can actually appreciate or actual know this home. So you will return with new eyes, ready to love, ready to start, ready to end.
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