We are humans; therefore we grieve. And vice versa; we grieve; therefore we are humans. In a linear understanding — the classic representation of a horizontal line drawn across a hierarchical time: past, present, future — we may think that grief starts with the self’s incarnation into this body, this world. Within this view, grief is often held as a passage: something that starts, unfolds, and eventually ends. There is a before, a during, and an after. Like a ladder, it suggests ascent and...

-ONE ROAD, IN TWO-NESS WALKED- SEEKING AND HOMECOMING "for the soul feels that this thirst of love is a loving thirst" Leonard Cohen We do seek. And we get often lost and tired. All this is nevertheless true. At times we don't know what we are seeking, and where we head towards. And we become weary and tired and old. And the questioning stays with us. Maybe we dare ask in solitude: 'Have I wandered and found? Have I traveled well? Was...

A broken heart is the centre of our interconnectedness. Every single human being lives with it, and tries to understand its healing throughout this lifetime journey. I write these lines in a sorrowful night of a heartbroken March, and I don’t know how to voice what I live these days, so I write and I will not leave the words unless I can find some hope to offer to my readers and companions. I am a seeker - when I forget - and a true supporter of that sort of hope that feels like a Ray of...