You Belong
A Call for Connection
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"A POWERFUL WORK OF SPIRITUALITY AND ANTI-RACISM"—Publishers Weekly
"IF YOU READ ONE BOOK IN 2020, MAKE IT THIS ONE."—Tricycle
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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Meditation teacher Selassie makes a case for how readers can find a sense of belonging amid turbulent times in her dynamic debut. "Contemporary life makes it easy to forget belonging," she writes before reminding readers they "belong in every moment, to everything, and then, like it or not, to every(damn)one." She identifies the delusion of separation and the pain of domination as the root causes of all "feelings of not belonging" before delving into strategies for grounding, knowing, and loving oneself in order to connect with others more fully. She instructs readers to feel gratitude for one's body through meditation and to consider one's "shadows" by confronting past events one has disowned. With grace, intelligence, and palpable compassion, Selassie weaves discussions of implicit bias, intergenerational trauma, and white supremacy throughout her coverage of more traditional spiritual topics, such as ego and conscious awareness. She offers thoughtful reflections on the Covid-19 pandemic ("centuries of separation and domination encoded into systems... has shown us how interconnected we are, and also how unequal") and the impacts of the widespread shelter-in-place orders, as well as meditation practices and journal prompts. This is a powerful work of spirituality and anti-racism.
