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The Gate of Tears Sadness and the Spiritual Path

Jay Michaelson

The Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual Path explores the 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. Its eighty-two short, poetic, sometimes epigrammatic chapters dra...

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This book was described as a smaller, devotional poetry work to the divine, written in the year after his mother died, focusing on affirming the sadness experienced daily when attuned to life's ups and downs.

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the other one gait of tears sadness in the spiritual path which like i said is kind of a smaller book of mine but i'm immensely proud of it it was written in the year after my mother died and that's t...

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This book was described as a smaller, devotional poetry work to the divine, written in the year after his mother died, focusing on affirming the sadness experienced daily when attuned to life's ups and downs.

"

the other one gait of tears sadness in the spiritual path which like i said is kind of a smaller book of mine but i'm immensely proud of it it was written in the year after my mother died and that's that's in there not directly but it's it's actually in large part about the sadness that we experience every day if we're attuned to life and it's ups and downs and affirming that in a profound way

Episode: Imposter Syndrome, Politics and Sensuality, Dr. Ja...

Described as a smaller, devotional book of poetry written in the year after the author's mother died, it embraced the sadness experienced daily when attuned to life's ups and downs.

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the gate of tears is the first one and then is my book of poetry and and now Jewish enlightenment they're all at this sort of Jewish Buddhist spiritual intersection

and that's that's in there not directly but it's actually in large part about the sadness that we experience every day if we're attuned to life and it's ups and downs and affirming that in a profound way

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