One evening, around twenty years ago, Ted Slipchinsky cried out to the universe for assistance in feeling more alive. The next day an explosion of energy arose within him. It was as if a cosmic generator had been attached to the back of his head, and the stillness between his thoughts, what he calls the "stuff" of consciousness, came to life as a vibrating energy. As he gradually learned to balance this force (which continues to this day), words began to flow. Aphorisms, stories, teachings and songs arose from the deep space of this accelerated energy; "the great river of life". In this book Ted shares many of these writings in the hope that they will offer strength to those who read it, and remind them of their own Divine Essence.