A headland above the sea at sunset

The book

Discovery
Simplified

Time Travel Through Compassion. A memoir by William Torrillo.

The idea

“We don’t leave our past behind. We take it with us.”

Discovery Simplified explores the idea that our lives are made up of a collection of hearts.

We are often told that growing means letting go of who we used to be.

What if becoming someone new doesn’t require abandoning the people we have already been?

The collection of hearts

Our lives are made up of many hearts:

  1. The child
  2. The teenager
  3. The person who struggled
  4. The person who escaped
  5. The person who loved
  6. The person who broke
  7. The person who survived
  8. The person we are still becoming

Explore the hearts

Inside the book

Time travel through compassion

We cannot return to the past and change what happened. But through memory, attention and compassion, perhaps we can return to the person it happened to.

Explore the idea

Recovery → Discovery

Addiction and sobriety, not only through stopping drinking, but through what happens afterward: when the time once spent escaping becomes the time in which you actually begin living.

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The places in between

“Long before I understood what nature was giving me, I kept pointing my camera toward it.”

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Book details

A memoir. A journey. A collection of hearts.

Title
Discovery Simplified
Subtitle
Time Travel Through Compassion
Author
William Torrillo
Publisher
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Published
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Pages
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ISBN (hardcover)
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ISBN (paperback)
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