Tara Nome Doyle

Rumi’s philosophy: to love is already to accept loss; to grieve is to remain faithful to that acceptance:

Buddhism does have something like a creation story for what Abrahamic traditions call sin or evil, but it’s causal, not moralistic. In the Agganna Sutta, the problem isn’t disobedience or original guilt; it’s craving.

Beings don’t “fall,” they slowly forget. Desire thickens, bodies and boundaries appear, ownership follows, and from that come... See more

“As a matter of history, it was the study of dreams that first enabled psychologists to investigate the unconscious aspect of conscious psychic events.” (Jung, 1969, p. 23)

Somewhere between childhood, and adulthood, you just suddenly.,.. stopped doing all the things you loved. You played for the last time, you made up imaginary worlds for the last time, you stopped crafting on the weekends.

Remember when you were a kid and you’d be like... today is the day I learn how to make lemonade, today is the day I write a... See more

If you don’t know who you are anymore: your friends and family probably do. Start asking them:

• “What song reminds me of you, what movie?”


• “What was I like as a child?”


• “What is your favourite memory of us together?”


• “What do you think my biggest skill is, my biggest weakness?”


• “What are some words you would use to describe me?”