From Hildegard of Bingen to Simone Weil, from ecstacy to meditation, from Christianity to Sufism, this is a collection of spritual writings by women. It looks at spirituality in its broadest sense, and includes extracts from fiction and poetry as well as writings by women for their search for spiritual fulfilment, women whose inner journeys were often very different from those of men. Crossing all religious boundaries, disciplines and ages, this represents, not just Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Sufism, but also women who do not conform to any mainstream orthodox religion.