spirituality of imperfection
When you chase perfection, when you make perfection the ultimate goal, do you know what you’re doing? You’re chasing something that doesn’t exist. You’re making everyone around you miserable.
You’re making yourself miserable. Perfection? There’s about five times a year you wake up perfect, when you can’t lose to anybody, but it’s not those five
... See moreAndre Agassi • Open: An Autobiography
It’s not that I know how to do this. It’s that my soul is guiding me through this.
—life mantra
—life mantra
McCall Erickson on Substack
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
... See moreErnest Kurtz • The Spirituality of Imperfection
Humility is not thinking less of yourself. It’s thinking of yourself less.
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
kind of shocked at how much mental energy is freed up if we stop trying to be special and important