In Life's Bleeding Tears and Flying Smiles, spiritual master Sri Chinmoy retells 172 folk tales and traditional stories from around the world. Here readers will learn how a wife transforms the life of her husband, what a baby's special birthmark really meant and the way a man learned spirituality's highest truth from the death of his son.

These ancient stories, retold by Sri Chinmoy recount the sadness of life as well as life's "flying smiles." Some, like The Dishonest Son-In-Law show how a young man's greed results in losing just what he was trying to get his hands on. In thers, like The Seven-Year-Old Defeats the Scholar a young hero defeats an old villian.

As Sri Chinmoy says in his introduction to the book, "May these tales liberate us from the heavy dryness of the mind, and may they transform the dryness of the mind into an ever-blossoming fountain-ecstasy."

Life's Bleeding Tears and Flying Smiles is a beautiful, imaginative book for children of all ages.