Status Updates From A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Second time reading this book still is one of my favorite

“…erotic love, in which the beloved becomes an invitation to become who you secretly, dormantly, like a locus underground waiting for tge seventeen year old call, already are in hiding, that love for the other that is also a desire to reside in your own mystery in the mystery of others”

“…to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a chosen surrender, a psychic state achievable through geography.”

“The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration— how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else?”

ceasing to be exiles by ceasing to remember the country they were exiled from so that they could wholly embrace the country they were in. Only by losing that past would they lose the condition of exile, for the place they were exiled from no longer existed, and they were no longer the people who had left it.