I've read The Journey several times and continue to refer to it whenever it feels appropriate. What most struck me about the book at first reading, and what continues to draw me in each time I pick it up, is the deep sense of humility that comes across in almost every line.

The Journey is Arnold Patent "unplugged," like King Lear in the storm scene or Job standing before the Whirlwind. You give the reader a welcomed sense that Arnold is right down there with us in the human experience, often just as bewildered and feeling the victim and unsettled like any one of us.

You're not trying to level out the feelings in the human experience, or prescribing right behavior to correct what seems like an unacceptable situation. The Journey is far more powerful and supportive to the reader who is committed to opening up the beauty and joy of expanding the Soul awareness in the human.

You Can Have It All is powerful because it's "truth is simple" -- no apologies for the style and feeling quality. You also had to establish the vocabulary of this simple truth in the first book so we could all share with one another. But there was still an arm's-length quality to it (and with the other subsequent books) that gave the impression that while Arnold is the ideal and articulate mentor, he is probably beyond most of the pain, despair, etc. that the rest of us feel on a daily basis, and has attained a higher level of existence.

The Journey guides us through the Principles using Arnold as the subject. The candor and humility with which you present your own experiences lets us know that all of us, even Arnold, can feel overwhelmed at times, particularly when we acknowledge that all that we see is ourselves.

Your personal experiences are also instructive because they demonstrate that everything, no matter how apparently insignificant, is information mirroring our state of consciousness and limited beliefs. From the World Trade Center to shingles to termite droppings, it's all supportive and all significant. What better way to express and experience the richness and power of being in the moment, and all that is presented to us in that glorious moment.

I regard The Journey as the clearest and most approachable expression of Principle after You Can Have It All. You've given us all so many powerful gifts Arnold with each of your books, seminars, etc. The Journey pulls everything I know from and of you together and pulls it down to that sweet sense of humility that was only there in the background of the earlier works.