The East is within us; it is the other half of our selves. The interest today in Eastern religions and philosophies arises from a need to discover aspects of ourselves which we have hidden; it is the need for a living wholeness that cannot be met by any religion or philosophy, whether of the East or the West. . . . .A hundred illustrations echo the author's celebration of existence and reveal the love of life which "at any and every level of development is the religious impulse."