Instead of merely succumbing to The Fact that today's useful things are caught up with performance indicators and measurement, Wanda Nash re-asserts the importance of values: "Our living standards, our attitudes to other people, our daily priorities, our powers of copiing with frustration and pressure and anger, are all based on how much our striving is balanced by our grounding." [vii]

Wanda Nash draws deeply from many different Religious traditions, and from the rituals and practices of No-Religion, fantasy, visualization. Treats the subject of "stilling" as a practical response and complement to "doing".