What you hold in your hands is not merely a book; it is a path to hope, a guide to prayer, and a call to see in a new way. It is an invitation to go beyond the ego and to drop any addiction to worry. It is a call to breathe easily and become aware.
--from the Introduction

I have been reading From Fear to Serenity with great relish and reward. I got to exercises on breathing and kept saying "amen" as I read on; breathing exercises have been my salvation through some perilous periods of stress. The book is both so spiritual and so practical. I look forward to finishing it and to spreading the word about it. --Bill Moyers

This new book by Thomas G. Casey, SJ, and Margaret Brennan Hassett brings together a wealth of de Mello's wisdom, and provides an excellent introduction to the man who taught so many that God is, as St. Augustine wrote, "nearer to me than I am to myself." Read it, and find the freedom to meet God in a new, and perhaps surprising, way. --from the Foreword by James Martin, SJ

Thomas G. Casey, SJ, is the director of Jewish studies and professor of philosophy at the Pontificial Gregorian University in Rome.
Margaret Brennan Hassett has devoted her life to further understanding addiction and recovery and has served on innumerable civic and not-for-profit boards, notably the Hazelden Foundation.