This latest book by Martin Lings is perhaps the easiest to read of all that he has written. The basis of sound objectivity, which we have learned to rely on, is still there; but from the very start of A Return to the Spirit that basis is overlayed with a subjectivity into which the reader is irresistibly drawn. The opening chapter, "How did I come to put first things first?" deeply concerns every well-intentioned individual. So do all the other chapters, each in its own particular way. We quickly find ourselves conscious of being very much in our element and this consciousness lasts throughout our reading of the highly informative "Answers"- to quote the book's subtitle - that are given to the "Questions".
