“When we accept ourselves in all our weakness, flaws, and failings, we can begin to fulfill an even more challenging responsibility: accepting the weakness, limitations, and mixed-up-ed-ness of those we love and respect. Then and only then, it seems, do… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
Yet again, an ancient answer echoes across the centuries: Listen! Listen to stories! For what stories do, above all else, is hold up a mirror so that we can see ourselves. Stories are mirrors of human be-ing, reflecting back our very essence. In a story, we come to know precisely the both/and, mixed-upped-ness of our very being. In the mirror… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share
“The message of all spirituality is that, in some mysterious way, we are all one—that therefore the joy and the sorrow of any one… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
Spirituality points, always, beyond: beyond the ordinary, beyond possession, beyond the narrow confines of the self, and - above all - beyond expectations. Because… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
“Once we accept the common denominator of our own imperfection, once we begin to put into practice the belief that imperfection is the reality… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
“We are all looking for, but we find what we are looking for only by being looked for. We find miracle only when we… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
“For women and men, for alcoholics and non-alcoholics, spirituality is one of those realities that we have only so long as we seek it;… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
To acknowledge, to accept, and to forgive one's parents - both what they gave and what they did not give, both one's dependence upon… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
“We modern people are problem-solvers, but the demand for answers crowds out patience—and perhaps, especially, patience with mystery, with that which we cannot control.” — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
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