Seeing with the Eyes of Love by Eknath Easwaran is a practical commentary on The Imitation of Christ, a Christian devotional classic of the early 15th century, believed to be the work of Thomas à Kempis.

Easwaran' introduction explains that he regards the Imitation is "an entirely practical manual for sincere spiritual aspirants,"[12]: 13  The section discussed in Seeing with the Eyes of Love is a "soaring hymn of love"[12]: 17  that appears in Book III, when the Imitation, now an "indisputably mystical treatise,"[12]: 18  has become a dialogue between God and the spiritual aspirant, with whom "each of us, clearly, is meant to identify.

For example, starting in the first chapter, Easwaran comments on how a person's turn to the spiritual life can be much like falling in love: "just as great worldly romances often begin with a single, telling glance, so, very often does this one... deep within you something stirs...".

The Lord answers every selfless prayer, but the initial unification of desires is up to us...[12]: 104–5 Similarly, in Chapter 12, Easwaran addresses patience, writing that The spiritual life calls upon us to be both patient and impatient.

[12]: 231 Seeing with the Eyes of Love concludes with a 22-page afterword by Carol Flinders that profiles the Imitation's presumed author, Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380 – 1471), and the times in which he lived.

The Afterword also sketches the Imitation's influence on figures ranging from Therese of Lisieux (who memorized it) to Ignatius of Loyola to John Woolman to Dag Hammarskjöld, who carried it with him on the flight that ended in his death.

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"[8] In Prairie Messenger, a Roman Catholic publication, J. W. Gray stated that "Far from losing himself in mystical romanticism, Easwaran insists throughout that what one discovers within unites one with the community.

"[2] But Easwaran "manages to open up the mind and spirit of Thomas a Kempis and to awaken people created in the image and likeness of God to the possibilities of imitating Jesus.

"[2] He later added that in Seeing with the Eyes of Love, "Easwaran untangles a meditative paradox of imitative faith and observance that draws people to the actuality of Jesus Christ.

"[7]: 15 A reviewer in Monastic Interreligious Dialogue called Seeing with the Eyes of Love a "gem," stating that it "shows that there is much more to the [Imitation] than the pious rhetoric of an age of Jansenism.