Two Books that Shaped My Spiritual Path

Two of the most meaningful books I’ve ever read are Evelyn Underhill’s Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness and Thich Nhat Hanh’s Living Buddha Living Christ. I discovered Mysticism the summer after I graduated from High School, when a friend gave me a copy after I had an unsettling, but deeply spiritual, dream (I recount this story in my book Unteachable Lessons).

Underhill initiated me into the mystical tradition within Christianity (although she also thr...