Endorsements

Susan Quinn's practical and empathetic counsel will be helpful to anyone considering developing their spiritual journey, not least to readers who have found problems and questions along the way. Here interfaith and ecumenical understanding of spiritual practice and meditation will appeal to readers who want to learn more about other traditions and who value openness and exploration. THE DEEPEST SPIRITUAL LIFE illustrates well how this deepening can influence the everydayness of our lives. 
--The Right Reverend Frederick H. Borsch, Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Los Angeles  

This is a warm, wise book, generous in its insights and replete with illuminating vignettes from a wide variety of spiritual traditions. What is particularly valuable is its thoughtful examination of spiritual practice: how it's practiced both individually and communally and how these lines powerfully intersect. This book is a unique offering to spiritual literature and a highly valuable one at that. For those considering embarking on the spiritual journey as well as for those who are veterans, this book provides a wise guide, enlarging our vision of the spiritual world.
 --Pravrajika Vrajaprana, Vedanta Society of Southern California, is the author of Vedanta: A Simple Introduction (Vedanta Press, 1999), A Portrait of Sister Christine (Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, 1996), and My Faithful Goodwin (Advaita Ashrama, 1994), as well as the editor of Seeing God Everywhere (Vedanta Press, 1996) and Living Wisdom: Vedanta in the West (Vedanta Press, 1994).

Susan Quinn’s book, THE DEEPEST SPIRITUAL LIFE mines a rich vein of gold that no one else has mined. She shares richly with us from her own unusual combination of the spirituality she has found in Zen Buddhism and the religiousness she has found in the communal rituals and practices of Judaism. But she goes far beyond this to bring in persons she has interviewed from many traditions, ranging from Hinduism and Buddhism to Protestant and Catholic Christianity, from Muslim spirituality and religiousness to that of Religious Science, from the Jewish mystical tradition to the tradition of the Talmud and rabbinic Judaism. What is still more remarkable is that she communicates all this in a manner perfectly accessible not only to spiritual and religious practitioners but to any intelligent and educated layperson who is open to the spiritual wealth that she has here laid before us. What is more, without falling into pedantry, she spreads out a rich tapestry of chapters on finding your way, spiritual revival, commitment, the choice of a spiritual guide, the inseparableness of spiritual growth and service to others, the questions that practice answers and the questions that it does not answer, how practice changes your life, and for those who have persevered to the end, how do you create your own path. I cannot imagine a finer blend of the universal and the particular, the extraordinary and the everyday. I recommend Susan Quinn’s book for the great many and the few, the young and the old, the beginner and the long-standing practitioner.
-- Maurice Friedman, author of over 20 books including A Heart of Wisdom: Religion and Human Wholeness