Joseph Campbell speaks of the importance of being centered and grounded in a place that is OUR place—of being oriented in time and place, and knowing where we are, and knowing that this is where we belong.

When we live grounded in our identity, there is no fear of losing anything, or of what may happen to us.

Then, we are being who we are in the sense of Gerhard Manley Hopkins’ line, “What I do is me/For that I came.”

In that place, nothing can prevent us from being who we are, from doing what is ours to do.

We are at-one with ourselves.

To live there is to be at “the still point of the turning world.”

It is to be at the center of all of creation—at one with all things—and to act out of our own being, in accord with transcendent mysteries that are more than we can conceive, or say.

Being centered in our own, personal, identity unites us with all of life.

That’s the truth we live to realize in the time left for living. We move into and through ourselves to all things beyond.

That’s the hero’s journey.

Do you have a better idea for the time left for living?

Golf, maybe?

Shopping?

My sacred place is sitting in my recliner,
Looking out the window.