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Last month, Sounds True 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 experience unraveled the way I see the world and made me a student of all spiritual paths. With a steadfast belief in our aliveness, I hope what’s in this book will help you meet the transformation that waits in however you’re being forged. The following piece is an excerpt from the book.

FINDING A WAY OUT

When a dolphin leaps, something

in me comes out in the open. When

the truth in you breaks surface, some-

thing in me looks for a way out. When

I glimpse the vastness from a height, I

want to return to all I was born with.

It’s true, breaking surface and glimps-

ing the vastness live in each of us. And

tripping through the days, we mirror

each other’s sleeping angel. So when

moved way inside, open your heart

the way you would a bag of fire.

The world is a spark between

birth and death.

A Question to Walk With: In conversation with a friend or loved one, describe a time when the truth broke surface in you or around you.  What have you done with this truth?