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I have written a comment, but I feel so strongly about this particular translation that I decided to do a review. The purpose of a translator, as I understand it, is to faithfully convey both the meaning and the context of the author's words, ideas, and message. In other words, to "do no harm." Ms. Starr wreaks havoc with Tersa's message, which was obviously difficult enough for her. I agree with other reviewers that by substituting "innocuous" or "politically correct" or words with which Ms Starr feels are uncomfortable for modern readers, she transforms both the meaning and the context of Teresa's message and often digresses into total nonsense. Perhaps she is Jungian, and that is fine; however, Teresa does not use the vocabulary of "unconsciousness" to represent "sin." And the substitution is meaningless, most particularly becuase the unconscious is something of which we are unaware. Teresa stresses the necessity of the awareness of sin. Therefore, the substituion is a sentence such as "Make us alert to our unconsciousness and may God protect us from it" makes no sense on two levels. One: you cannot be alert to something of which you are unaware and secondly, why would you ask God to protect you from something he gave you and something you need (the unconscious), but for other reasons. It is sad to see this transformation and distortion of meaning of one of the world's great mystics. If I want to read Ms Starr's spiritual views, I would be pleased to do so in an essay of her own. But I want to read in Teresa's (or St John's)own words (as nearly as a translation will allow) what she has to say. As for me, I prefer the real deal to some so called sanitized version.