Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment Audiobook (Free)

The internationally recognized teacher, speaker, and NY Times bestselling author of A Return to Like argues our desire in order to avoid pain is actually detrimental to your lives, disconnecting us from our deepest emotions and preventing true healing and spiritual transcendence.

Marianne Williamson is a bestselling author, world-renowned instructor, and perhaps one of the most essential spiritual voices of our time. In Tears to Triumph, she argues that we-as a culture and as individuals-have discovered to about Tears to Triumph: The Religious Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment avoid facing pain. By doing so, we are neglecting the spiritual work of healing.

Instead of allowing ourselves to embrace our harm, we numb it, medicate it, dismiss it, or elsewhere divert our attention so that we do not have to handle it. In refusing to acknowledge our struggling, we actually extend it and deny ourselves the chance for profound wisdom-ultimately limiting our personal development and chance for enlightenment. Frozen by denial, we are still left standing in the breech. Entire industries benefit from this immobility, and while they have grown rich, we have become spiritually poorer.

As Marianne makes clear, true recovery and transcendence can only just come whenever we finally encounter our discomfort and wrestle with what it must teach us. Written with warm compassion and deep knowledge, Tears to Triumph presents us a robust way forwards through the discomfort, to a deeper awareness of our feelings, our lives, and our accurate selves.