"History and personal testimony confirm that the inner qualities of wholeness, peace and clarity, tenderness, joy, and feeling empowered to move forward in the face of fear can blossom from any truly positive bond of spiritual direction. However, interfaith spiritual direction offers a unique gift. It allows a liberation of the soul as the divine moves through the seeker's life. By this I am not referring to seekers totally casting off the rules and beliefs of their own faith. Rather, when the guide and seeker are of different traditions and bring no agendas to the relationship other than mutual respect and bearing witness to God working in our lives, something singularly grace-filled can occur. As one seeker put it, 'You can become, I think, more of a convert to God than to any particular faith system.' "