In these hard times, it is essential that sensitive people empower ourselves. Written in the mid to late 1990s after meeting my wife, Source for Sensitive People details a personal spiritual revolution for me. I envisioned living in a more life-affirming way during my psychosis and my wife was a catalyst for a powerful leap forward, giving me more than I could imagine. The book itself is more or less notes on what I learned from that journey and my wife’s wisdom applied to my life.

I want to help people like my wife and I, who have an emotional depth and ideals of peace, love, harmony, beauty and intimacy that make it difficult for us to navigate the harsh and unfeeling constraints of warfare society. I wrote it knowing that whoever reads it will have their own personal world, their own interpretation and their own dreams that I cannot know.

To empower ourselves, we must change our personal world, build on the positive and reduce the negative. Through changing our personal web-of-life, we can overcome traumas, abuse, bad relationships, addictions, loneliness and other challenges that we commonly face. Source for Sensitive People was written concisely as possible, encouraging the reader to focus on her or his face-to-face web of life, learn from those around him or her and gain emotional strength through a happy, healthy face to face community.

After writing it, I set it aside, not particularly interested in bringing attention to myself through publishing. Instead, I continued to apply the ideas to my own life. Part of these ideas were to practice good works and acts of charity in my personal and the larger world. Eventually some of the mental health work I did on that path brought me to the attention of some people outside my community. While on a sabbatical beginning in 2014 from mental health work, I decided to publish writings to help sensitive people like my wife and our family. Using material that mainly developed decades ago, I am now beginning to publish the Small Gifts for Sensitive People series that this book is a part of.

In the two decades since Source for Sensitive People was written our lives have flourished, despite many crises in the world around us. Every few years I reviewed it to see what I would change, which has been very little. Two decades after I wrote it, I would say that my mistakes were mainly times when I failed to apply it. In the meanwhile, I’ve had many happy times and personal successes in my face-to-face community, ranging from gaining many friends to having a positive effect on my community to attaining a deep spiritual understanding of my personal path. When I’ve carried out the practices, I’ve also experienced many times of deep contentment, happiness and bliss.

I’ve gained a deep gratitude for all the gifts I’ve received, which includes everything that Westerners might call “my” accomplishments. I reflect on tremendous good fortune that I can only ascribe to luck, my dear wife and the crucial kindness of strangers.

I do not know if the path I have taken will help you in your personal web of life and with your journey. Ultimately, if someone chooses to read it, it is up to each person to measure it by his or her own life and apply or reject it however seems appropriate. All I can say is that the principles in it have helped me tremendously. I hope it and the other essays and short books in the Small Gifts for Sensitive People series will do the same for you.

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