Description: An intellectually stimulating, profoundly inspiring anthology, Pilgrim Souls explores the formation of the self through accounts of spiritual quests and personal histories. The voices of wanderers and seekers, from Saint Augustine to Leo Tolstoy to Kathleen Norris, narrate the discovery of spiritual truths. Pilgrims and missionaries -including Saint Paul, Rabbi Leon Modena, and Albert Schweitzer -- recount the spiritual vigor that sustains a life of self-sacrifice and service. In the words of mystics and visionaries like Saint Teresa of Avila, the slave narrative of Henrietta Gant, and Annie Dillard's meditation on holiness, the power of supernatural experiences and epiphanies is brought to life. The scholars and philosophers -- Marcus Aurelius, C. S. Lewis, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, and Denise Levertov, among others -- discuss the possibility of a rationally established faith. Spanning two millennia and several continents, these extra-ordinary readings will illuminate for readers their own search for spiritual understanding.

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