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About The Shirley Lyons is a retired school teacher who holds an MFA and was the first recipient of the Michigan Migrant Teacher of the YearAward in 1985. She is an International educator, she has traveled the world from Europe to Africa, the USA to India. Having experienced the deaths of her father, her brother and her first born, Shirley searched in her travels for the meaning of life and death. In 1967 a singular event changed the course of her life. An apparition appeared to her in the portrait of a man she did not recognize. It said to her "Don't be afraid, the agony of your life is over." Shirley spent four years looking for the man that appeared to her, and she found a portrait of him in an Ashram in India. He was a great spiritual leader. This book is her account of finding him, because in finding him she found herself.Shirley lives in South Palm Beach, Fl. Her yearly travels Barcelona, Abu Dhabi and Auroville, India. Four months a year she teaches English at an Indian Village school ( Isai Ambalam) in Auroville.Shirley has experienced the pleasure of following the teaching of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother since 1972.

Shirley Lyons is a retired school teacher who holds an MFA and was the first recipient of the Michigan Migrant Teacher of the Year Award in 1985. She is an International educator, she has traveled the world from Europe to Africa, the USA to India. Having experienced the deaths of her father, her brother and her first born, Shirley searched in her travels for the meaning of life and death. In 1967 a singular event changed the course of her life. An apparition appeared to her in the portrait of a man she did not recognize. It said to her "Don't be afraid, the agony of your life is over" Shirley spent four years looking for the man that appeared to her, and she found a portrait of him in an Ashram in India. He was a great spiritual leader. This book is her account of finding him, because in finding him she found herself. Shirley lives in South Palm Beach, Fl. Her yearly travels include: Barcelona, Abu Dhabi and Auroville, India. Four months a year she teaches English at an Indian Village school ( Isai Ambalam) in Auroville. Shirley has experienced the pleasure of following the teaching of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother since 1972.