more fulfilled, content, and more successful. Instead of risking ourselves to be more authentic and alive in our relationships, we adopt a consumerist mentality that tries to fill our inner void with objects and distractions, but which only succeeds in leaving us alone and lonely, insecure, disconnected, and empty. Hypnotized by the popularity of self-help mentality, we slowly turn away from or pay mere lip service to the spirituality of self-denial, obedience, and surrender—a spirituality that,