This book is written to help those seeking to follow our Lord to obtain the silence of the soul necessary to hear and understand the will of God.

The author, a German Benedictine, present the full panorama of a Christian life. The subjects include our Lord’s call to everyone to a life of perfection, a constant spiritual struggle through the practice of human and supernatural virtues, and the frequent reception of the sacraments.

“There is nothing new in Archavvot’s Baur’s approach to the inner life, but he says things long familiar to us using a language adapted skillfully to our present-day need.” (Placid Jordan, O.S.B.)