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Sounds True recently published a new, expanded edition of Inside the Miracle: Enduring Suffering, Approaching Wholeness, which gathers twenty-eight years of my writing and teaching about suffering, healing, and wholeness, including thirty-nine new poems and prose pieces not yet published. One of the great transforming passages in my life was having cancer in my mid-thirties. This experien
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The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have
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1999
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58 editions
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Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred
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2006
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18 editions
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The Exquisite Risk: Daring to Live an Authentic Life
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2005
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6 editions
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Things That Join the Sea and the Sky: Field Notes on Living
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2017
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2 editions
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The Endless Practice: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be
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2014
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16 editions
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Finding Inner Courage
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2011
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18 editions
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Reduced to Joy
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2013
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8 editions
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The One Life We're Given: Finding the Wisdom That Waits in Your Heart
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Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression
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The Book of Soul: 52 Paths to Living What Matters
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“We waste so much energy trying to cover up who we are when beneath every attitude is the want to be loved, and beneath every anger is a wound to be healed and beneath every sadness is the fear that there will not be enough time.
When we hesitate in being direct, we unknowingly slip something on, some added layer of protection that keeps us from feeling the world, and often that thin covering is the beginning of a loneliness which, if not put down, diminishes our chances of joy.
It’s like wearing gloves every time we touch something, and then, forgetting we chose to put them on, we complain that nothing feels quite real. Our challenge each day is not to get dressed to face the world but to unglove ourselves so that the doorknob feels cold and the car handle feels wet and the kiss goodbye feels like the lips of another being, soft and unrepeatable.”
― The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have
When we hesitate in being direct, we unknowingly slip something on, some added layer of protection that keeps us from feeling the world, and often that thin covering is the beginning of a loneliness which, if not put down, diminishes our chances of joy.
It’s like wearing gloves every time we touch something, and then, forgetting we chose to put them on, we complain that nothing feels quite real. Our challenge each day is not to get dressed to face the world but to unglove ourselves so that the doorknob feels cold and the car handle feels wet and the kiss goodbye feels like the lips of another being, soft and unrepeatable.”
― The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have
“…there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.”
― The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have
― The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have
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