Silvana Ziviani, seventy-five year old, has had an extremely adventurous life both internally and externally, and with this book, a true and exact report of her inner voyage, she wants to offer testimony of the direct experience of her long and difficult religious search, the hard-fought and thrilling quest for the freedom of the heart. This is a book that can be read at different levels: It is an autobiography of a modern woman and her adventurous life, but at the same time, it's a study of Buddhism and its various traditions; it is the direct experience of the teachings of the foremost spiritual masters during entire years of silence and meditation almost without interruption, years of going deeply within, into the mechanics of the mind and emotions, isolated in various meditation centers throughout Europe and Asia (Nepal, Burma, Sri Lanka, Thailand).