Changed the way I see scripture, philosophy, and the world. Degher writes with the rare combination of intellectual rigor and contemplative warmth. A vision of reality held together, without forcing the reader to hold it together themselves.

This book arrived at exactly the right moment. I have read it three times and each reading reveals something new. The chapter on the heart as compass should be required reading.

I do not usually read books like this — and yet I could not put The Path of Truth down. Emilio writes for the questioner in all of us, with the patience of someone who has walked the road himself.

There is a quietness in his writing that I have not felt since reading the great contemplatives. He does not perform. He thinks — carefully, generously — and invites you to think with him.

A meditation on freedom unlike anything I have read in modern theology. Degher finds the pattern of exodus in places I had walked past for years without seeing.

The book I did not know I needed. The Dogon chapter alone is worth ten ordinary books. I finished it on a flight and sat staring at the window for an hour afterward.

These pages do not tell you what the soul is. They make you remember. I do not know how else to describe what happened while I was reading.

Seven books that belong on the shelf next to the writers I return to year after year. There is a wholeness here — one mind, one question, slowly turning every angle.