Some years ago I read the then best-seller, The Road Less Travelled, by M. Scott Peck. I was very impressed from the very first sentence in the book. "Life is difficult", he wrote, and I immediately knew that this was not going to be another quick-fix self-help book that would be long-forgotten within  a few days after reading it. Instead it was an honest, straight-forward look at the process of psychotherapy as a challenging undertaking that requires hard work and commitment as well as time. Many do not have the willingness to commit to doing their work, to heal, to grow, to change. Thus those who are follow a "road less traveled", a phrase coined by poet Robert Frost who happens to hail from Vermont, my home state. However those who do take on the challenge and stick with it find that psychological healing and maturity lead very naturally to spiritual development. In fact authentic spirituality must involve doing one's psychological work. Peck's work was a large contributor to the emerging field of psycho/spiritual psychotherapy and had a profound influence on me.