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The Spirituality of Imperfection

Storytelling and the Search for Meaning

by Ernest Kurtz
Katherine Ketcham
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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.

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