Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place. Nothing outside you can give you any place, " he said. "You needn't look at the sky because it's not going to open up and show no place behind it. You needn't to search for any hole in the ground to look through into somewhere else. 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 OConnor
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The famous poet William Blake said, "Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it." This quote means that where we came from is gone. If something happened to us in the past then it's not important. It's also important that where we think we are going to go in the future is not there yet. The only place that exists now is the place that exists right now.

Source: Wise Blood

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