Spiritual Passages: Embracing Life's Sacred Journey Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	Awakenings: The Story of Buddha	3
2	Loss as Liberation: The Hindu Life Stages	17
3	Embracing Change: The Yin and Yang	33
4	The Wisdom of Age: An Aikido Master	53
5	The Freedom of the Fool: An Old Woman in Purple	77
6	Caring for Our World: The Eagle Clan Mother	101
7	The Use of the Useless: The Taoist Tree	129
8	Completing the Past: Scrooge's Ghosts	157
9	Facing Death and the Deathless: A Buddhist Mother	187
10	Suffering as Gift: The Passion of Jesus	217
11	Rebirthing the Self: Sarah's Laugh	245
12	Coda: The Dance of the Sages	265
	App. A Suggested Readings	269
App. B	A Spiritual Passages Group	273
App. C	The ElderSpirit Center	277
	Notes	281
	Index	289