CONTENTS

                      Foreword by Adyashanti

                      Introduction

        PART I    BEGINNING THE SEARCH

                       Poem: Excerpt from “The Invitation”

CHAPTER 1    What Ends the Search Begins the Search

CHAPTER 2    Spiritual Impulse and Spiritual Ambition

CHAPTER 3    Silence and Stillness: The Greatest Teachers

CHAPTER 4    Paths and Practices in the Search for Truth

CHAPTER 5    Peace, Ego, and Inquiry

      PART II    SEEN AND UNSEEN

                      Poem: “The Footprint of the Divine”

CHAPTER 6    Background and Foreground

CHAPTER 7    The Heart of Awareness

CHAPTER 8    Presence and Personhood

     PART III    CAUGHT IN THE JAWS OF THE TIGER

                      Poem: Excerpt from “The Invitation”

CHAPTER 9    Caught in the Tiger’s Mouth

CHAPTER 10   Dying for Truth, Yet Afraid of Disappearing

CHAPTER 11   Enlightenment Cannot Be Bought or Sold

CHAPTER 12   Burning in Love’s Fire

       PART IV   THE SEARCH ENDS IN WHAT NEVER ENDS

                        Poem: Excerpt from “The Invitation”

CHAPTER 13   The End of Seeking

CHAPTER 14   Awakening Is Only the First Step

CHAPTER 15   Resting the Mind in the Heart of Awareness

         PART V   UNDIVIDED LOVE

                        Poem: “Until we have fully . . .”

CHAPTER 16   Love Flows from Emptiness

CHAPTER 17   Love Contains Both Joy and Suffering

CHAPTER 18   Fierce Grace

       PART VI   LIVING AWAKE, LIVING NOW

                        Poem: Excerpt from “The Invitation”

CHAPTER 19   Embodiment Unfolds Itself

CHAPTER 20   Living Awake Is Living Now

CHAPTER 21   Awakening and Surrender

CHAPTER 22   Freedom from Freedom

CHAPTER 23   Myths of the Spiritual Life

CHAPTER 24   An Afterword about Words

                        The Invitation

                        Acknowledgments

                        Notes

                        Bibliography

                        Permissions

                        About the Author

                        Also by Dorothy Hunt

                        About Sounds True

                        Copyright

                        Praise for Ending the Search