Just as the seed contains the wisdom of the plant it will become, and the acorn contains the oak, your lives with their daily needs and intimate personal concerns are the map of your becoming and the guide to all that you can be.
The heart’s desire is called the heart’s desire because it lies within you as your heart does. Because it is close, intimate and ever present. Because it beats with the pulse of your life and drives the force of your passion.
I have said that you need to remember how to live your lives from the bottom up and the inside out. But it is even simpler than that. Each of you has been born from the seed of your own longing. And that seed—that desire, and that life force—is your sense of belonging, and your sense of being safe and at home in the world.