This engaging work, written in a non-technical style, presents the relevance of the teaching of St. John of the Cross as a Way of Holiness for contemporary man. Making use of the principal symbols of the Carmelite Mystics: Canticle, Flame, Dark Night and Mountain, the author engages in a dialogue with contemporary theology and spirituality, without undermining the contribution of Christian tradition and classical schools of the thought in the interpretation of sanjuanist texts, in order to present a powerfully relevants and attractive spirituality for our times. It reveals a spirituality rooted in its Carmelite Identity and open to the exigencies of the religious of the present day.