I picked up this book at the fleamarket and find it fascinating, going back to the pre-Buddhist area of Tibetan shamanism. It has many different insights, and it just has a different quality compared to the 'normal' spiritual books.
I'll post some of them over the next few days but to start with a wonderful passage.
"That night I heard the songs of the earth and the elements. The words talked of what we are made of, where we came from and where we are going to. Of how things are. They were songs of wisdom, a wisdom that lies at the foundation of all humanity.
All living things can hear that wisdom. They knew the song my teacher was singing that night. They knew it because they were the words and the wisdom. We know the song, too. Because we are the words. We are the wisdom."
Christopher Hansard
"The Tibetan Art of Living"
