The author of the best-sellers A Path with Heart and Buddha's Little Instruction Book now addresses readers of every faith in this extraordinary exploration of the joys and challenges of the spiritual life. Kornfield shares dozens of first-person accounts of what it's like to experience the joy and freedom of awakening, but also reveals the long, slow effort to translate that freedom into the daily life of difficult family or community relationships, struggles with earning a living, sickness, betrayal by those we have trusted - even death.