Drawing on the Eastern Christian tradition, this work invites us into greater knowledge of God and ourselves, taking a way largely neglected and obscured in the West. Perhaps because we think about repentance in terms of guilt, we find it difficult to open ourselves to it, to understand it as it should be understood - as a way of healing from guilt, and of liberation from self. Irma Zaleski draws us into the heart of the great mystery of repentance, the mystery of God's infinite mercy and love, and suggests a way in which we can embrace and live it.