Excerpted from the preface: In this great river of life that flows endlessly, there were moments of deep feeling when I realized that my life is a gift. Each such moment resembles an eternal spring gushing forth with the joy of 'being helped to live and helping others to live.' We can live as recipients of life from all others and all else. Striving to live with all, I present this book as a kind of landscape of encounters_a portrayal of thoughts and experiences that call on privileged instants in the process, instants by which I have been coming to encounter myself.