I don't know how I'd feel about this book now, but when I first read it, I found it really useful in explaining the tension between the pull of being alone with God and the pull of being engaged in doing the works of the Spirit (to put it in Christian terms). I don't think this dichotomy is unique to Christianity, though that is all this book deals with. However, people interested in the gesalt of spirituality (rather than just how to do it), might get some useful information out of this book. The authors being Jesuits, they are a little heavy on Ignatius of Loyola, but then he seemed to have a more balanced approach to spirituality than, say, Symeon the Stylite, who sat on top of a pole for 30 years. ( )