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This is a very powerful book, and I was deeply moved by it.

In a lucid, plain-spoken style, impeccably worded and paced, Gregory Sass presents the stages of a lifelong “psycho-spiritual” quest with an ultimate goal of healing and self-realization.

First come powerful accounts of a young boy’s harrowing experiences in Germany at the end of the Second World War. The horrors he witnesses will haunt him. In his troubled adolescence in Niagara Falls, a difficult stepfather severs the bond with his mother.

Early spiritual seeking cannot keep him from alcoholism, and the life-story then skips decades to a time of recovery with his second wife. Gregory shares her deeply touching journal written during her struggle with cancer. Poems of grieving precede another movement of restoration which is neither simplistic nor linear.

The remainder of the book shifts subjects and moods in ways that invite readers to reflect on geopolitical issues, on matters of faith, and on a serene old age. No commonplace memoir, this extensive compilation and summing-up is steeped in a distilled wisdom—seasoned, strengthened, and given authority by the experiences that led toward it, by an inspired philosophical mind.  

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Gregory Sass has been a teacher, senior editor, television executive, and social worker. He is the author and co-writer of nine books. The leisure of retirement has given him the luxury to enjoy what he values: the silence within; sunrise and sunset; birdsong; reading; writing; quality conversation; being kind to whoever needs it; and supporting causes he believes in. Soul’s Journey is the poetic story of his own inner life lived during significant turning points in our time. It is an authentic, compelling tale of resilience, survival, and overcoming that leads to discovery of a life rich in meaning and loving relationships.

Allan Briesmaster is the author of Windfor and Later Findings

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