At some point, especially when things are not going well, most of us wonder what life is all about. We ask questions like, "Why me?" or "What have I done to deserve this?" This, Alan James suggests, is the call to the spiritual quest, to discover for ourselves that which lies beyond the conditioned universe.

Alan James founded the House of Inner Tranquillity, along with his wife Jacqui James in 1980. He continued to teach the way to enlightenment until his retirement in 2010.

This talk was originally given in March 2002