A problem of belonging

Hello everyone. This is my first time posting here, so I wanted to introduce myself and share something that has been on my mind for a very long time. I recently discovered the Law of One and this community, and I was surprised by how familiar some of the things I read felt to me.

I think I have struggled with a sense of not belonging for as long as I can remember.

As a child, I was actually a very happy child, independent of my circumstances. I spent a lot of time in my inner world and had incredibly vivid, beautiful dreams. My dreams felt almost like being in Wonderland. I rarely had unpleasant dreams. As I grew older and became more affected by people and the world around me, my dreams changed too. Dreams of running away, falling, and being chased gradually began to appear.

I also never truly felt that I belonged to my own family. The only person with whom I ever felt completely at home was my grandmother. We didn’t necessarily have long conversations or do anything special together. I could simply sit beside her silently for hours, or fall asleep in her arms, and feel something incredibly deep and peaceful. I have never been able to feel that same sense of belonging with anyone else.

I did feel something similar once in a romantic relationship, and losing that relationship was extremely painful for me. Perhaps because I had finally found that feeling again, only to lose it.

Losing my grandmother herself was different. I was deeply sad, but I never felt that she was truly gone or that she had gone somewhere bad. I have always had a very strong feeling that she went somewhere better. In that sense, I was at peace with her passing. What hurt was simply losing the one place where I had felt completely at home.

I am not antisocial, and I function quite well in the world. I have good relationships, I am successful in my work, I have an active life and I travel. From the outside, my life probably looks very good.

But internally, I often feel deeply tired of this world.

There is a strange feeling that there is somewhere else where I belong. I don’t know where it is or what it is, but I feel that it exists. Not knowing what or where it is has become exhausting.

I experience something similar in relationships. I can connect with people easily, but I rarely feel that a relationship reaches the depth I am looking for. Things that seem very deep to others can sometimes feel superficial to me, and eventually I become disconnected.

I only recently came across the Law of One and the idea of Wanderers. My interest in these subjects actually began with an experience involving my grandmother. She died when I was 18, but I didn’t know about it at the time. I had a very unusual dream involving her, and the following day I learned that she had died. I have always felt that this was like a final gift from her. After that, I became interested in dreams, reincarnation, consciousness, and eventually the Law of One.

I don’t know if I am a Wanderer, and I am not claiming that I am. I simply want to know:

Are there other people here who have felt, perhaps since childhood, that they don’t quite belong in this world? And if so, how have you learned to live with it?

English is not my first language, so I am using a translator to write this post. I apologize in advance if anything sounds unclear or unnatural. :green_heart:

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Hello, @Serpil. Welcome to this forum.

A sprout bursts from its seed and shoots above ground to reach for the sun, yet in some sense it is a native of the soil. It uses the soil to support its original sense of self, but its task is to grow into the world of air and light and become its full self, whatever that may be.

Perhaps you can focus your awareness on the feeling of where you come from and allow that to support you now? Can you search inside to feel what you feel about this and about that? If so, maybe you will get closer and closer to what you realize you love the most.

If this happens, it is better not to try to return there, but to allow that most special love to flow out through your being into this world. This is your task. Belonging will follow if you lead with love, but not so much if you are expecting love in return for this and for that.

I wish you all the goodness you already are.

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@Mirror

Thank you so much for your kind welcome and for taking the time to reply to me so quickly. I was genuinely very happy to receive a response so soon. :green_heart:

What you said about working on the feeling of where I come from really resonated with me. This is something I would genuinely like to explore and understand better.

I know that meditation could probably be a way to do this. However, until now I have mainly used meditation to quiet my mind and let my thoughts go. I have never really used it as a way of exploring these deeper questions about myself.

If you have any experience with this, I would really appreciate hearing how you approach meditation for this kind of inner exploration. Or, if there are other practices or methods that you have found helpful, I would love to learn about them.

There is also something you mentioned about leadership that made me think.

Leadership is actually a complicated subject for me. I don’t really want to be a leader, and I don’t seek out leadership roles. Yet I often find myself taking responsibility and naturally ending up in that position, even when I don’t want to.

As a teacher, of course I have to take responsibility for my students, and I actually enjoy that part of my work. But I notice the same pattern outside of my students and even outside my actual responsibilities at work. Somehow, I end up taking responsibility for other people or situations, even though what I really want is simply to do my own work and be responsible for my own part.

So perhaps I do have something to learn about leadership, responsibility, or knowing when something is actually mine to carry and when it isn’t. I’m still trying to understand this myself.

Thank you again for yourthoughtful response. It gave me a lot to reflect on. :heart:

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In a broad sense, there are two types of thoughts. The first is connected with the sensory experience of the nervous system, mainly these are thoughts of what you want to do in the outer world. The second are inner thoughts of the imagination. These are a means of creative exploration.

Meditation could be said to be a deliberate attempt to filter out the first type and engage with the second. In my experience, meditation without though is an extension of the creative impulse, not a lack of it, because you get there through desire and imagination.

But what do you wish to explore?

This is the key question. Commonly, people have no focus for this and end up traveling to random places. So, you must be clear about your intention.

In this case, your focus could be the feeling you had sitting with your grandmother–not her, not you, but that feeling of freedom and acceptance.

Allow that to sink into you and follow it. Do not disturb it, but simply give it space to breathe and, perchance, to grow. Let it have you, because this is you. You are allowing a reconnection of your own self.

I have found it useful to meditate in places where others have been doing dedicated spiritual practices (such as monasteries) or at sacred mountains. You might try searching for sacred places in your area, if you are serious about this, to see if their atmosphere supports your own work.

Again–always–lead with love.

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Greetings Serpil and welcome here.

whatever system translated your thoughts in English ended in a lovely way.

About meditation I can only give you what happened to me and it may help or not at all :grinning_face:

I started when I was in my twenties and discovered Buddhism. I can tell you at first I tried to do the best I could and it seemed to be very foggy and slow, lol, and boring. And trying to stop my thinking process was like a profoundly boring thing, lol. But I still appreciated much the approach of Buddhism other wise, lol

And then one day, because, I love nature, I just decided to walk in some woods and sit there and just listen to the sounds around, the wind , the birds, and the faraway sounds coming from sometimes a passing train… lol. not trying to meditate at all, lol

It just did it for me. Suddenly I felt this sort of torrent of gratitude and yes lost somehow all my thoughts and just immersed myself into this flow of gratitude and had tears running down, slowly like for several minutes lol

Since then I am a little addicted to this, and now I know I just have to sit anywhere, even in a train station, lol , and listen to whatever sounds are in those different environments. I find it, curiously, very grounding, even though that flow of gratitude always seems to appear.

So I am not sure this can help. We are all unique and approaches are limitless, but I like what Mirror said , always-lead-with-love, those are very fine words..

All the best Serpill on your path.

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A beautiful vibe in this thread. I have little to add to the atmosphere here, other than a realization that felt liberating to me:

Emotions are neither dark nor light,
they are harsh or a delight.

It freed me from moralizing my own inner weather. Calling difficult feelings “dark” made me treat grief, fear, or anger like spiritual corruptions needing to be fixed.

Reframing ‘dark or light’ feelings as ‘harsh or delightful’ strips away that judgment—they aren’t sinister, they’re just abrasive textures of catalyst to carry. It shifted my inner work from a sense of conflict with “lower” states into simply allowing whatever distortion or catalyst arises to be felt and balanced without an underlying tone of shame.

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Beautiful Raz !!! I so agree !!!

Shame should not exist, it destroys humans.

Regret actions and change course

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:folded_hands::smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

I do believe, there’s action based context where the lesson of regret is easier to understand with a splash of shame involved.

it’s when we paint the emotion’s them selves as shameful that we risk unnecessary self repression and unbalance :slight_smile:

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Raz I totally agree then

Shame on oneself as a sponraenoousp reaction and temporary tool , absolutely

I meant shame as something thoughtfully inflicted on someone else of course.

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Shame on you for not clarifying that we are on the same page earlier :sweat_smile:

Joking aside, Really happy that you are in a position to chime in, in the forum again flo :green_heart:

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lol Raz. I had a small medical issue that was driving my doctors nuts so surgery and it turned out totally ok

back in the saddle !!! lol

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