Masters Center for Transformation | eBooks

This is poetry that does not so much explain as reveal, poetry that sings, bleeds, soars, winging the ordinary and rooting the extraordinary. The price of admission? A sense of wonder. And it should not be so much read as imbibed, perhaps after releasing its juices with an unapologetically deep bite or two…

Where pain is consciously felt hurt, suffering is the dramatization of that hurt, casting us the role of the hurt one, stranding us from the raw reality of our pain.

Turning toward and entering our pain — our contractedness, our fear, our distress, our numbness, our unhappiness — helps put us on the road to authentic happiness.

Turning toward our pain reduces our suffering. Entering our pain further reduces our suffering. Moving through our pain ends or at least radically reduces our suffering, even if our pain remains.

The more intimate we are with our pain, the less we suffer.

To emerge from our pain, we have to enter it.

NOW WITH NEW AFTERWORD NOT PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED.

"An absolutely extraordinary book....

I think you really have offered something to the spiritual literature, an insight into the difficulty of the extraordinary vistas of the path that has never been written before....

I absolutely recommend Darkness Shining Wild. It’s a remarkable book long waited for.”

STEPHEN LEVINE, author of Healing Into Life & Death