The persistent questions of seekers fill this book. It's all here; the pain, the confusion, the raging gut-level thirst - All that it means human and alive and wanting. Through it all are the clear, strong, and unwavering tones of a master who reminds us that the only thing that lies between the human being and the divine, between the finite and the boundless, between seeking and finding, is choice.

What does choice entail? Not the acquisition of any path-breaking wisdom, but a determined refusal to strengthen one's ignorance, to reinforce one's deceptions, to 'gold-plate one's limitations'.

"Don't polish your ignorance," he warns. "It may shine"