You Belong

Digital Audio read by the Author; unabridged; 8 h 35 m

English language

Published Aug. 25, 2020 by HarperAudio.

From much-admired meditation expert Sebene Selassie, You Belong is a call to action, exploring our tangled relationship with belonging, connection, and each other

You are not separate. You never were. You never will be.We are not separate from each other. But we don’t always believe it, and we certainly don’t always practice it. In fact, we often practice the opposite – disconnection and domination. From unconscious bias to “cancel culture”, denial of our inherent interconnection limits our own freedom.

In You Belong, much-admired meditation expert Sebene Selassie reveals that accepting our belonging is the key to facing the many challenges currently impacting our world. Using ancient philosophy, multidisciplinary research, exquisite storytelling, and razor-sharp wit, Selassie leads us in an exploration of all the ways we separate (and thus suffer) and offers a map back to belonging. To belong is to experience joy in any moment: to feel …

From much-admired meditation expert Sebene Selassie, You Belong is a call to action, exploring our tangled relationship with belonging, connection, and each other

You are not separate. You never were. You never will be.We are not separate from each other. But we don’t always believe it, and we certainly don’t always practice it. In fact, we often practice the opposite – disconnection and domination. From unconscious bias to “cancel culture”, denial of our inherent interconnection limits our own freedom.

In You Belong, much-admired meditation expert Sebene Selassie reveals that accepting our belonging is the key to facing the many challenges currently impacting our world. Using ancient philosophy, multidisciplinary research, exquisite storytelling, and razor-sharp wit, Selassie leads us in an exploration of all the ways we separate (and thus suffer) and offers a map back to belonging. To belong is to experience joy in any moment: to feel pleasure, dance in public, accept death, forgive what seems unforgivable, and extend kindness to yourself and others. To belong is also to acknowledge injustice, reckon with history, and face our own shadows.

Full of practical advice and profound revelations, You Belong makes a winning case for resisting the forces that demand separation and reclaiming the connection – and belonging – that have been ours all along.

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Sasu reviewed You Belong by Sebene Selassie

Surprising & Rewarding Reflection on Interbeing

4 stars

I was quite surprised while reading this to realize that Sebene Selassie uses belonging as a translation of suññatā or interbeing. Or perhaps belonging is less of a translation and more of a lens. Either way, I found the reflections to be extremely useful. And I was impressed by the erudition of the work—it's quite rare for teachers to draw on such a breadth of sources from different disciplines. She also manages very well to convey what practices can be helpful for awareness of and engagement with belonging while also not giving the sense of yet another list of to-dos to add to the pile.

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Motivation (psychology)
meditation

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