Part 1, Practices for the Quest, goes to the heart of various disciplines, exercises, and techniques that are useful at various stages of spiritual self-discovery and self-development. It explains what qualities must be developed, why they must be developed, how they can be developed, and how that development is tested by life itself. Part 2, Relax and Retreat, lays the cornerstone for a modern life of inspired sanity. It addresses the urgent need in our times to neutralize the hectic pace and mounting tensions of contemporary life with a deliberately cultivated spiritual equilibrium. To that end, it is a practical course in balancing periods of extroverted activity with recuperative periods of creative inner stillness. The skills developed through applying the techniques of this category provide a foundation for stable progress in all aspects of the spiritual Quest.