Table of Contents
An Opening invitation 1
Truth
Our Basic Goodness 11
What Is Good Enough? 12
Thank You for Everything 14
The Second Arrow 15
Resisting the Demons 18
This Too 21
Newspaper Meditation 23
Meet Your Edge and Soften 27
The Gift of a Failed Strategy 29
From White Guilt to Heartbreak 32
Speaking and Receiving Difficult Truths Not a Problem 43
Thank You, Siri 45
What You Practice Grows Stronger 49
Real but Not True 51
Sacred Presence 52
Every Day, No Matter What 53
Love
Is Always Loving You 59
Loving Ourselves into Healing 63
The Boundary of Our Freedom 67
Living True to Ourselves 70
Please, May I Be Kind 75
Narayan's Ant Farm 78
We Are Friends 81
Reverence for Life 84
Our Secret Beauty 89
The Bridge Between Longing and Belonging 92
Keeping Company with Grief 95
Our World's Fear 98
Loving Life No Matter What 103
Freedom
Two Wings 109
A Sunlit Sky 111
"This Is It" 114
Remembering the Way Home 115
Surrendering Again and Again 118
Touching Presence 125
Saying Yes 126
The Unreal Other 129
The Vast Sky of Awareness 132
Seeing Behind the Mask 135
"I'm an Undo" 139
Is This Universe a Friendly Place? 140
A Prayer for Mia 144
Happy for No Reason 145
The Lion's Roar 150
These Precious Moments 151
Standing Still 153
Our True Home 155
A Heart Ready for Anything 157
The Fragrance of Awareness 158
Truth or Love? 161
Acknowledgments 165
Notes 167
About the Author 171
About the Illustrator 173