The Gift From Life

About the Book

     When the human body is injured and in much pain, modern medicine can make miracles and heal it. The healed human body then reaffirms its healthy existence as a creation from above and takes back the life that wanted to abandon it. The healthy human body, with its healthy brain, heart and memory, is a magnificent thinking machine.

     When the human soul is wounded, more often than not medicine remains hopelessly inadequate, and the wound festers. The soul loses everything beautiful that lived in it. It detaches itself from the world around, locks itself in a shell and rejects normal life. The soul is no longer normal. It loses memory and all feelings: love, joy, hope, happiness.

     For the wounded human soul, the road to recovery is painfully slow. In this story, the author walks along this road together with a human soul that has been deeply wounded, a being that has lost both memory and hope. The author follows the everyday life of this soul, witnesses occasional sparks of light and many relapses into obscurity.

     With help from a strong faith in Buddhism and support from spirits in the world beyond, the wounded soul accepts the challenge of re-entering normal life and receives the Gift from Life.

About the Author

Born and raised in the Far East, the author has traveled extensively around the world on numerous teaching contracts and has become an expert at living out of a suitcase. Making friends on the five continents became as easy as Hello, how are you. Fitting in with the natives was always key to happy living, enriching experiences and lasting friendships.

A lover of classical music and animals, one of the author’s dreams is to, some day, have a home large enough to shelter abandoned animals of all sorts, with the exception of snakes. The dream lives on. Still as a dream.

Now retired from teaching, the author enjoys reading, writing, volunteering, more traveling, and getting together with friends for good time and good fun. The motto continues to be ‘Respect Life and Life will respect you’. Life is here to be lived, so live it.

Buddhism, a religion of peace, giving and meditation, holds an important place in the author’s life. As does communication with the beyond where, in utter silence and deep contemplation, the timeless beauty of spiritual life dims the pathetic light of temporal life.