Rootlessness is the loneliness that comes with leaving home, with forever losing loved ones, loved places, and loved things. To cure out rootlessness, we need to find a home.
Finding a home is not, in the end, so much a question of finding a building, a city, a country or a place where we feel we belong. That's part of it. More deeply, finding a home is a question of moral affinity, of finding another heart or a community of hearts wherein we feel at one, safe, warm, comfortable, able to be ourselves, secure enough to express both faith and affection.
Ronald Rolheiser, The Restless Heart
