Letting Go
1. Looking Back and Longing The dead are the dead and the living the living. You are mad if you think you can change the way of the gods. Those who go to the Underworld can never return. To retrieve
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The Meaning of a Broken Heart
The Image of Our Hearts I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it breaks open and never closes again to the rest of the world Heartbreak is, in a way, a misnomer. If
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 Falling in Love
1. Why "falling"? We come into love the same way we leave it - by falling. First, into the arms of our beloved. Then, to our knees. The language of falling isn’t accidental. We fall, quite literally,
Solitude and Togetherness
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you. David Whyte “There are gaps in the mesh of the everyday world, and
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