Familiar Reflections

What is love? What does it truly mean to search for it within ourselves, in the world, and in the depths of our hearts?

In this debut reflective memoir, J. J. Laakso masterfully interweaves one man’s personal growth with timeless, familiar, yet often forgotten truths. Through a combination of poetic spiritual awakening and philosophical pondering, Laakso constructs clear definitions and thought-provoking equations to answer some of life’s most profound questions. In an increasingly disconnected world, this book illuminates our eternal search for what we truly desire, both individually and collectively, in a manner that is unparalleled.

So that we may one day love our effects
with every breath of the rest of our lives

As shapes of the infinity of our hearts
drawn with the same love that shines

As everything we are

Sustainably happy

Together

The author is a doctor of philosophy, a specialized medical physicist, and a researcher and lifelong student of Dharma, of life that encompasses us all. Learning to listen, better and better, one breath and realization at a time, to its teachings, to which he is forever grateful – as old as time itself as many of them may be.