spirituality of imperfection
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.
― James Baldwin
Ayishat Akanbi • Sentences That Have Shaped Me
The problem with organized religions, Bill Wilson once complained, “is their claim how confoundedly right all of them are.”7 The spirituality of imperfection that forms the heart and soul of Alcoholics Anonymous makes no claim to be “right.” It is a spirituality more interested in questions than in answers, more a journey toward humility than a str
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The only way to help people rise above undignified behavior is to teach them that they are dignified. You cannot fight shame with shame.
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"What most of us are waiting for is someone else to really think you’re okay with all your warts, just the way you are." - Charlotte Joko Beck
Sara Campbell on Substack
The late eighteenth-century Hasidic master Rebbe Nachman of Breslov teaches us, “If you want to return to God you must make yourself into a new creation. You can do this with a sigh.”9
Adina Allen • The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom
Men become monsters by convincing themselves they're saints.
Laura London on Substack
When the founder of Hasidic Judaism, the great Rabbi Israel Shem Tov, saw misfortune threatening the Jews, it was his custom to go into a certain part of the forest to meditate. There he would light a fire, say a special prayer, and the miracle would be accomplished and the misfortune averted.
Later, when his disciple, the celebrated Maggid of Mezri
The more you thank God for the life you have, the more your life starts to look like the one you want.
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It’s not that I know how to do this. It’s that my soul is guiding me through this.
—life mantra
—life mantra