I first got this book during a time when I thought prayer, or a certain spiritual awakening, could help me through some difficult times. It was highly recommended by Oprah and a bunch of other celebrities at the time,and I was curious.

What a terrible disappointment. I found it to be full of very trite and empty sayings, a new age-y approach to prayer without anything significantly profound to back it up with, and I found her writing to be annoyingly self-absorbed and pretentious. I was looking for words that would inspire, a more philosophical way of approaching spirituality, and a guide to how to get there. Instead it was more of a self-serving vanity work showing off bite-sized digestible chunks of cliched new age spirituality. If you are seriously interested in prayer and spirituality, stay far away from this one.