The Spirituality of Imperfection - Ernest Kurtz & Katherine Ketcham

The Spirituality of Imperfection

By Ernest Kurtz & Katherine Ketcham

  • Release Date: 1992-04-01
  • Genre: Self-Improvement
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 44 Ratings

Description

Learn how to embrace your faults and vulnerabilities to experience true spiritual growth with this hopeful and motivational guide.

“Inspiring . . . offering comfort . . . to those who want to stop striving for perfection and start living.”—Publishers Weekly

I am not perfect” is a simple statement of profound truth, the first step toward understanding the human condition—for to deny your essential imperfection is to deny your own humanity. By seeking to understand our limitations and accept the inevitably of failure and pain, we being to ease the hurt and move toward a greater sense of serenity and self-awareness. This illuminating book brings together the wisdom and stories of many traditions and faiths, from Hebrew prophets to Buddhist sages and Christian teachers, and from ancient Greeks to the modern insights of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Through thoughtful commentary and more than one hundred vividly told tales, The Spirituality of Imperfection enables us to accept the inevitability of pain and failure so that we can ease the hurt and move toward serenity and wholeness. It speaks to anyone who yearns to find meaning—and even joy—within suffering.

Reviews

  • Spirituality of imperfection

    5
    By Can't hat
    Great book...interesting,helpful stuff
  • The Spirituality of Imperfection

    5
    By Jaybird East
    The beauty of this book is that it describes our common pilgrimage. Told in the context of the power of Alcoholics Anonymous to change lives, it reveals the truth that each of us is broken whether we are in A.A. or not. Each of us is powerless to change on our own. But through the power of storytelling and storylistening, we can accept our brokeness, and make room for a new person with a new map for their life. And it is through this brokeness that sprirituality comes into our lives. "Spirituality enters through the cracks in the heart." When we finally realize this, spirituality changes us. Indeed, it is the only thing that really does.
  • 12th Step Helper

    5
    By Polaroid-Palinode
    I've been reading this as the 12th step has been working me. I can't think of anything more perfect for an imperfect spirituality. Thank you so much for this book. I will be recommending to everyone who wants to hear it in recovery. Paul D.