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Chapters (103)
  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Dedication
  4. Upon Seeking Tu Fu as a Guide
  5. To My Reader
  6. Enduring Suffering
  7. God, Self, and Medicine
  8. Willfulness
  9. In Voices Half as Loud
  10. Tu Fu’s Reappearance
  11. Without Notice
  12. The Waiting Room
  13. Endgame
  14. Questions to Walk With
  15. A Terrible Knowledge
  16. October Storm
  17. Post-Op
  18. Setting Fires in the Rain
  19. The Decision for Therapy
  20. Questions to Walk With
  21. Ocean of Sky
  22. For My Brother
  23. Covenant with Time
  24. As Rachel Wakes
  25. Dance of the Seed
  26. A Sacred Meditation
  27. Questions to Walk With
  28. Messenger Signs
  29. Where We Are Strong
  30. As If to Say
  31. Finding a Way Out
  32. Questions to Walk With
  33. Approaching Wholeness
  34. Troubled Waters
  35. Knowing God
  36. The Garage
  37. Living with the Wound
  38. Questions to Walk With
  39. Mind Sweats
  40. First Treatment
  41. Cradlesong
  42. Lifesong with Two Trumpets
  43. Letter Home
  44. Who Will Live Your Life?
  45. Questions to Walk With
  46. Midway in Our Journey
  47. Magnificence
  48. Another Chance
  49. Nesting
  50. I Have Not Forgotten
  51. On My Way
  52. Questions to Walk With
  53. Facing the River
  54. Being Human
  55. As Moonlight
  56. In the Back of the Eye
  57. In the Sea of Others
  58. Moonglow
  59. Chores
  60. Questions to Walk With
  61. Still Here, Still Wondering
  62. Unraveling the Self
  63. Cracked or Healing
  64. For Nur
  65. Love-Sufferings
  66. Soft as Satisfaction
  67. Letting Go
  68. Inside the Miracle
  69. Questions to Walk With
  70. Sifting Truth
  71. Susan Means Lily
  72. Sitting Near a Smoke Bush
  73. Sniffing For You
  74. Forged
  75. It
  76. Surviving Has Made Me Crazy
  77. For That
  78. Questions to Walk With
  79. Flint Work
  80. Entering Our Tenth Year
  81. Coming of Age
  82. After Mira
  83. Still
  84. What Can I Do?
  85. Love Your Window
  86. Hourglass
  87. Questions to Walk With
  88. The Bridge of Well-Being
  89. Adrift
  90. The Beauty of Less
  91. Between the Wall and the Flame
  92. Eventually
  93. Thrown Back
  94. The Slow Arm of All That Matters
  95. The Thin Magic
  96. In the Sky of Heart
  97. The Sway of It All
  98. Gratitudes
  99. Notes
  100. Permissions
  101. About the Author
  102. Also by the Author
  103. About Sounds True

From Masks of God: Oriental Mythology, by Joseph Campbell, copyright © 1962 by Joseph Campbell, renewed copyright © 1990 by Jean Erdman Campbell. Used by permission of Viking Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

Quotation from The Masks of God: Oriental Mythology by Joseph Campbell, copyright © 1962; by permission of Joseph Campbell Foundation (jfc.org).

Excerpt from Two Suns Rising, edited by Jonathan Star, reprinted with the permission of Jonathan Star.

“Dance of the Seed” was first published in Voices, the Journal of the American Academy of Psychotherapists, Vol. 27, No 4, Winter 1991, pp. 45–50.

“Troubled Waters” was given as a sermon in October, 1992 at the Unity Church of Albany, New York.

Excerpt from The Bijak of Kabir, translated by Linda Hess and Shukdev Singh, reprinted with the permission of Linda Hess.

“Who Will Live Your Life?” was first published in Pilgrimage, Reflections on the Human Journey, Vol. 18, No. 5, Nov/Dec 1992, pp. 2–8.

“Kabir: Ecstatic Poems” by Robert Bly, copyright © 2004 by Robert Bly. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press, Boston.

“A blind child” by Kikaku, from One Hundred Poems from the Japanese, by Kenneth Rexroth, copyright © 1955 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

“In the Sea of Others” first appeared in my book Inhabiting Wonder (Bread for the Journey, 2004), p. 36.

“Chores” was first published in Pilgrimage, Reflections on the Human Journey, Vol. 20, No. 1, Jan/Feb 1994, pp. 25–28. A different version of this essay also appears in The Exquisite Risk, NY: Harmony Books, 2005, p. 245.

“Unraveling the Self” was given as a presentation at The 1999 Associated Writing Programs National Conference, Albany, NY, April 19, 1999.

“Sifting Truth” was first published in Sufi, A Journal of Sufism. London: Khaniquahi Minatullahi Publications, Issue 47, Summer 2000.

“I am too alone in the world” from Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, by Robert Bly. Copyright © 1981 by Robert Bly. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

“If only there were someone else,” by Saigyo, from Poems of a Mountain Home, by Burton Watson. Copyright © 1991 Columbia University Press. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.

“Upon Seeking Tu Fu as a Guide,” “As Moonlight,” and “Surviving Has Made Me Crazy” from Surviving Has Made Me Crazy. Copyright © 2007 by Mark Nepo. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of CavanKerry Press, cavankerrypress.org.

“Flint Work” was first published in Sufi, A Journal of Sufism. London: Khaniquahi Minatullahi Publications, Issue 42, Spring 1999.

“The Panther,” translate copyright © 1982 by Stephen Mitchell; from Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell. Used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

“Self-Protection,” from The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence, by D. H. Lawrence, edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto and F. Warren Roberts, copyright © 1964, 1971 by Angelo Ravagli and C. M. Weekley, Executors of the Estate of Frieda Lawrence Ravagli. Used by permission of Viking Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.