Dying and Living in the Arms of Love: One Woman's Journey around Mount Kailash

Embark on a soul-stirring journey of love and transformation-where every step is a leap towards the endless embrace of self-compassion and universal love.

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"Receiving a heart-calling to travel the holy path around one of the world's most sacred mountains, Tracey Alysson takes us on this thirty-four-mile path not by walking but by doing endless prostrations. Travelling a path filled with rocks and boulders, a path often underwater or covered with ice and snow at higher elevations, requires more than physical stamina. Here we are brought to the essence of a spiritual journey as she and we learn that the physical body alone cannot accomplish this task; yet, the physical demands strip away all illusions and all defenses to lay bare the emotional, psychic, and spiritual bones of her being. It is a heart-rending and heart-felt pilgrimage."

-Barbara Meyers, MSW, author of Common Ground, Uncommon Gifts: Growing Peace and Harmony Through Stories, Reflections, and Practices in the Natural World and Fables for Wisdom Seekers Young and Old

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Tossing and turning for an hour, sorting things through in my thoughts. I am so afraid. I am so afraid to set my foot on Mount Kailash. Why did they invite me? I don't want this much vitality, this much ability, this much blessing. All my life, I just wanted to be left alone and to be ordinary, and now, I come and accept an invitation like this. It's not going around the mountain. I think I can do that if I choose to. It's that if I go around the mountain, it never stops. There is no escape from all this love. There's no escape, and that's what terrifies me. MotherFather Kailash, receive me, teach me in the way I need to be taught. Despite my ignorance, despite my blindness, I have come to you. I have come. I have come to receive your blessing and your teaching and your empowerment. I have come to love you. I have come to love me. (page 67)