Belonging to Life is an exploration of becoming awake and present for our lives so that we can know - no matter what we are experiencing, the joy and peace that are our birthright. Through stories, ideas and techniques, it explores how to quiet our minds and open our hearts so we can truly belong to ourselves and to life. Mary O'Malley writes from her own personal experience of awakening, having walked through the darkest of times, transmuting pain and wounding into precious treasure.

These poems speak directly to the inward journey we all are on - the journey from the darkness and confusion of unconsciousness to the joy and clarity of an awakened heart. They are a celebration of what it means to be healed by the very experiences that at first seem to injure us and of the power of our hearts to open to the joy of being truly alive.