By Way of the Heart: Toward a Holistic Christian Spirituality Book

'By Way of the Heart comes from the pen of an experienced master. Anyone who reads it will find a sure guide along a path that leads to wholeness, enlightenment and to God.' - William Johnston, S.J.

Library Journal

Another excellent manual of Christian spirituality, this is the work of a psychologist and priest who combines Western education and in-depth exposure to Japanese culture. Au recommends an embodied spirituality of gospel values: ``self-esteem must be balanced by self-denial; ministry by leisure; friendship by generativity; prayer by humor; and community by solitude.'' He also discusses decision- making, prayer, obedience, chastity, and poverty. Balance is always central to Au, whether balance of values or balance of our own effort and reliance on God; and he shows that it is is effort, rather than result, that is important.