This collection of poetic and mystical writings by Barry Long reveals the source of his inspiration as a spiritual master which as for any true mystic is total devotion to the divine. Everything in the book is the outpouring of a mystic voice arising from this passion. Every poem is an expression of the same inspiration whether he writes out of love for a woman or the passion that brings the mystic to a personal encounter with the impersonal the absolute or God. The book is also the story of an ordinary man transfixed by extraordinary moments of truth. The course of Barry Long's spiritual awakening was punctuated by the impulse to express in song and verse what was happening. These original writings are in the book in chronological order accompanied by the authors more recent biographical commentary. Early on his inner voice spoke through the ordinary form of popular songs: later as a kind of rhetorical monologue in verse. The words capture the power and immediacy of real spiritual insight. Barry Long was born in 1926 in Australia. He has been speaking as a spiritual teacher to audiences around the world for 40 years and has been published in many languages.