The Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual Path explores the counter-intuitive insight that Sadness and joy are not opposites - and that human capacities often suppressed or rejected can, instead, be gateways to deep joy, creativity, and liberation.
Written over a ten year period, and completed in the.
They are reflections on the Path of surrender, alchemy, and the sacred.
Its eighty-two short, poetic, sometimes epigrammatic chapters draw on contemplative traditions, art, even pop songs.
The Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual Path explores the counter-intuitive insight that Sadness and joy are not opposites - and that human capacities often suppressed or rejected can, instead, be gateways to deep joy, creativity, and liberation
