Rigorous Honesty?

an excerpt from Jack Kornfield Letting go allows us to live wisely. Life is inevitably a process of letting go into greater and greater capacities of being, from infant to child, adolescent to adult. Letting go of our fears and habits allows a more spacious wisdom to emerge. Mov­ing through this changing world and letting…

an excerpt from “The Spirituality of Imperfection” by Ernest Kurtz This sense of shared weakness creates what is truly a community. Participants in such a setting learn to appreciate rather than resent the strengths in others because they know that, at bottom, they are the same – flawed and imperfect. Those who do not share…

Thomas Merton was a Columbia University educated Trappist monk. In the mid to late 1930′s, the same time Bill W. was writing the book, Alcoholics Anonymous, Merton was having a spiritual crisis. His all night carousing and drinking was finally silenced by a spiritual transformation within the Catholic Church and a Trappist monastery. His experience…