Acknowledgments

In its own special way, writing a book is one path to finding harmony. I’d like to thank my agent, Imke Rötger, and my editor, Susanne Haffner, for their unparalleled collaboration and support. Thanks also to Lena Ellermann for her enchanting illustrations, which are so perfectly in tune with the text. Special thanks go to my son Leonard, who so generously provided his poem “Listening In,” thereby further adorning these pages. Finally, I would like to express my deepest thanks to Batya Rosenblum, whose gracious collaboration made this English-language edition possible, and to Alta L. Price, for the playfulness and artistry of her translation.

It's not what we experience but how we are emotionally affected by what we experience which determines our fate.

—Buddha