Eventually

Sounds True recently published a new, expanded edition of Inside the Miracle: Enduring Suffering, Approaching Wholeness, which gathers 28 years of my writing and teaching about suffering, healing, and wholeness, including 39 new poems and prose pieces not yet published. One of the great transforming passages in my life was having cancer in my mid-30s. 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.

Eventually

We stop trying
to carry all that we know
as if it will protect us.

If lucky, we are forced
to accept that under
what we think is ours
is the beginning
of what no one owns.

At last, we are
humbled to dip our face
in the same well.

It is the look of your
face and mine
lifting from that well
that frees me.

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