On Falling
There are so many ways to fall. We fall from trees, off cliffs, and out of favour. We might fall for a trick or down a rabbit hole. We free fall into nothing, and all too often we feel as
Perspective
Meaning, beauty, tragedy, and how we see
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The Experience of Letting Go
1. Original Loss Being human is yearning to recover the irretrievable. On Erich Fromm’s interpretation, humanity was born with The Fall. Adam and Eve became human once they had eaten from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
Love at First Sight
Irvin Yalom, in Love’s Executioner, writes about his patient, Dan. Dan is convinced that upon meeting a woman for the first time, “he had entered into a spiritual linkage with another kindred soul”. He had fallen in love at
On Nostalgia
1. Modernity & Nostalgia To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world - and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have,
Reimagining Our Relationship to Nature
To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings. David Whyte When modernity introduced a standard of usefulness as the measure of all things, it severed the connection between nature and those who should be closest to it
Wandering Leads Home
I wanted to go on a great pilgrimage so I sat still for a few hours. Kabir In The Wisdom of Anxiety, Alan Watts explores the “backwards law" or “the law of reversed effort.” This refers to the idea