Table of Contents
Where All Souls Meet xiii
Our Walk in the World
1 Living with Meaning, Truth, and Kindness 5
2 The Speed of Our Age 8
3 Always Part of Something Larger 14
4 Immersion and Devotion 19
5 The Pull of Existence 23
6 Being Wholehearted 26
7 Pushing On 32
8 As Many Times as Necessary 35
9 The Prison Tree 38
10 Student-Self and Teacher-Soul 45
11 Original Steps 51
12 Distributing the Weight 55
13 Our Walk in the World 59
Our True Inheritance
14 The Fire of Aliveness 67
15 The Slowing of the Land 74
16 Staying Possible 77
17 Lessening Fear 83
18 What to Bring Forward 91
19 Our Original Talent 98
20 Initiating the Gift 103
21 The Art of Being Sensitive 107
22 Chasing Paradise 111
23 As We Keep Searching 116
24 Our Dream of Life 121
25 Standing on and Standing For 124
26 Slowly Is the Way 128
Widening Our Circle
27 What the Elks Were Staring at 137
28 The Covenant of Practice 141
29 Unwavering 146
30 Honoring the Anonymous 149
31 Looking at Things Freshly 153
32 A Child of the Sixties 159
33 Prosperity Blindness 162
34 The Wanting Place 168
35 The Constant Unfolding 171
36 Four Small Lessons 176
37 Our Orbit of Concern 180
38 Glide, Pull, Walk, and Carry 185
39 Presence and Absence 189
Helping Each Other Stay Awake
40 How Day Follows Night 197
41 Each Time I Begin 200
42 The Finitudes 205
43 Sweet Teachers 210
44 The Greater Prayer of Being 213
45 An Inner Right-of-Way 218
46 Helping Each Other Stay Awake 223
47 Without Words 228
48 What If? 232
49 Try, Accept, Begin Again 236
50 The Fragrant Cuff 240
51 The Agents of Kindness 243
52 The Temple is the World 248
Gratitudes 251
Notes 253
Permissions 265
About the Author 267
