At its great and spacious heart, Ma and Me is a love song-a messy, chaotic, raucous, rhapsodic, lovely, lush, deep, noisy, still love song. It is a sacred river flowing with and into the heart of love-a song of love between a seeker, his guru and the world; between his guru and her Christ; between the Mother and all that is. There is nothing easy about this love song. It demands we ignite the fl ame of our truest selves, embrace fear and death, and, if we're wildly, chaotically diligent, cross over to Life, where we might be blessed to discover Love's eternal embrace.

- The Rev. Canon Charles P. Gibbs, Founding Executive Director Emeritus, United Religions Initiative
Like a book of matches, Ma and Me by Thomas Byrom has the power to set you on fire, to challenge and inspire you to ignite the flame of your truest self. At its great and spacious heart, it is a love song-a messy, chaotic, raucous, rhapsodic, lovely, lush, deep, noisy, still love song. It is a relentless storm. It is a sacred river flowing with and into the heart of love-a love for self, for the Mother, for everyone and everything, because there is only One. This is a song of love between a seeker, his guru, and the world, especially the natural world; between his guru and her Christ; between the Mother and all that is. There is nothing easy about this love song. It demands we walk the journey of surrender, embrace fear and death, and, if we're wildly, chaotically diligent, cross over to Life, where we might be blessed to discover Christ, Hanuman, and Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati with arms and hearts wide open to welcome us into Love's eternal embrace.-Snatam Kaur, Musician, Teacher of Kundalini Yoga and Sacred SoundWorked with religious, spiritual leaders throughout the world
Billy (Thomas Byrom) and I became friends in the late 1980s, when I met Ma during her visits to California to work with people who were HIV+. We never met in the flesh, but we clicked through messages and letters-we had a shared background and a parallel reaction to Ma: she crashed through our lives that were filled with books, but also with death, bringing us life in a chaotic, lively, loving form we hadn't experienced elsewhere. Byrom's fine translations of spiritual texts-the Dhammapada and the Ashtavakra Gita-are still among the best for both these famous works; he knew not only the languages and the cultures behind them, but he understood their most important messages. He thus did something not many can-he used his learning and intelligence as vessels to lead to spiritual growth, rather than for their own sakes. Ma and Me is his story of how an intelligent man falls toward illness and death, and discovers the perfect teacher-Ma Jaya, who was full of the life and joy he so needed. -Dr. Paul G. Antinello Jungian psychoanalyst, Senior lecturer in music at Newcastle University UK