this is not a book considers the roles of suffering, labor, and compassion as primary elements of vocation. Guiding its reader along a journey that has no end and offers no escape from the path as such, it challenges traditional paradigms of religion, spirituality, psychology, and philosophy that find their culmination in some ultimate ideal, goal, or metaphysical release. this is not a book suggests that there is no categorical destination, no endpoint toward which we must strive, there is only the path we find ourselves walking and the integrity we bring to it. It affirms that we can derive wisdom from our particular aspirations, but that we need to remain aware of the all-too-human tendency to reify our objectives and mistake them for reality as such. In the final analysis, we have ourselves, we have the unconditioned, and we have relationships—all of which meld in the experience of personality and life!
