Landscapes of the Sacred - Peter Ikeda

Coming back to school from break I had a lot of time to reflect on this break. I was thinking about how much I was looking forward to school again after having a week of break and I thought it was funny because a week ago I was looking forward to going home for break. I was then reminded of Lane's fourth axiom which states that the "impulse of sacred place is both centripetal and centrifugal. Local and Universal." Lane talks about how there is a renewed tension in human existence between exile and home: the desire of the settled to be unsettled and vice versa. In my case it is the desire of being home to be at school and vice versa but it still applies. Whenever I'm at school I find myself slowly desiring to go home more and more but when I get home I quickly shift back to wanting to return to school. There is an ever renewed tension within myself to be in the other place because of what I am missing out on despite being a part of what I was previously missing out on. I now fully understand what Lane is talking about in this axiom because I am going through that. Being back at school is awesome because I get to see my friends and be independent but now I want to go back home and relax and be with my friends and family. So for me, my location is both centripetal and cenrifugal between school and home.