Rigorous Honesty?
An interesting post from another blog. How many of these reasons can you relate to? 7 Honest Reasons Why Addicts Lie | Addiction Recovery.
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Uncertainty is Certain
“He explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer… Man comes closer to God through the questions he asks Him, he liked to say.”
– Excerpt from ‘Night” by Elie Wiesel
“Computers are useless. They only give you answers.”
– Pablo Picaso
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The Last Temptation
One of the most profound writings I’ve found is the Prologue by N. Kazantzakis to his novel, The Last Temptation of Christ. It is a moving statement of the struggle man experiences between the flesh and the spirit. It speaks to the spirituality upon which the Christian religion stands…and all too often hides from view…
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Shared Weakness
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…
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Thomas Merton on St. John of the Cross
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…
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Letting Go Into Our Freedom
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…
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Living Our Truth
How to make our lives an embodiment of wisdom and compassion is the greatest challenge spiritual seekers face.
