Nowhere to go

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Where is there a place for you to be?  No place. 
Nothing outside you can give you any place. 
In yourself right now is all the place you’ve got.
 
You needn’t look at the sky because 
it’s not going to open up and show no place behind it. 
 
You can’t go neither forwards nor backwards 
into your daddy’s time nor your children’s if you have them. 
 
In yourself right now is all the place you’ve got. 
If there was any Fall, look there, 
if there was any Redemption, look there, 
and if you expect any Judgment, look there, 
 
because they all three will have to be in your time 
and your body and where in your time and your body can they be?
Flannery O Connor, Wise Blood

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