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Summary: A powerful tool for recovery to wholeness
Review: A powerful tool for recovery to wholeness. This book depicts the nobleness of our humanity - with all its imperfections. Like Patton's empowering "THE Autobiography of Jesus..", this book removes the mysticism of Spirituality and lays out the essential bare-bones for all to see. For me it showed that our weekness' underline our true spiritual potential. Unfortunately we usually turn away from these limitations. This book invites us to look squarely in the face of our imperfections.
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Summary: What an absolutely wonderful book!
Review: Although it reinforces the validity of the 12-step recovery approach, this intelligent and wide-ranging book has an undeniable appeal to anyone with the yearning to understand more deeply the nature of spirituality. It is filled with stories from a variety of cultures, and so many of the tales have stayed with me for weeks now. Some of the points are so simple that I feel like they have been 'hidden in plain sight' my whole life. I just can't recommend this book too highly. It has jumped to the top shelf of my all-time favorites. I'm recommending it to my counseling clients regularly.
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Summary: best and most comprehensive look at spirituality I have read
Review: Both Kurtz and Ketcham understanding and writing abilities around such a difficult subject is simply amazing. The amount and depth, of stories told within the context of each area they discuss was excellent. A amazing and wonderful piece of work,one that is best read in measure, and over time.
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Summary: Historically cultural perspective on spiritual traditions
Review: For the intellectual or the experiential reader, this text is a must on their shelves, next to Jung's "Memories, Dreams and Reflections", and James' "Varieties of Religious Experience". Its simple approach to exploring the concepts of spirituality via stories brings unattainable truths down to a level of "keeping things simple". Although the text devotes a large portion to the spiritual traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous, the book unearth the universal truths of the "Twelve Steps" for the non-alcoholic or newly sober alcoholic.
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Summary: This book changed my life
Review: from the author of DREAMING YOUR REAL SELF: A PERSONAL APPROACH TO DREAM INTERPRETATION; and DREAM BACK YOUR LIFE: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO DREAMS, DAYDREAMS, AND FANTASIES.I read THE SPIRITUALITY OF IMPERFECTION at the end of 1993, at the suggestion of a friend. I had hesitated to read it because it was "a recovery book" and I expected that designation to limit its benefits. What I found, however, were stories that confirmed that to grow we must be willing to fail and make mistakes. This is what it means to be human. With this book's encouragement, hope, and humor, I embarked on my speaking and writing career, willing to blunder and to learn from others. Since then, I have recommended and bought this book as a gift many times. I list this title in my handouts for nearly all of my self-help classes and in the bibliographies of the books I write.
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Summary: A lot of words, little content
Review: I am utterly astonished with the positive reviews this book has received. To me, the authors use a lot of words to express very little. The premise of the book, that we are all "imperfect" seems to be a very basic concept - so I kept waiting for the authors to give some positive ideas about how to live out that understanding in a practical way. What I read was a bunch of ying-yang paradoxes leading nowhere. They are very adept at sounding intellectual and use a lot of words rich in spiritual connotation but in the end the material left me with nothing concrete. The authors also have a pretty strong aversion to organized religion although they go out of their way to avoid saying it directly. I found their constant references to the "saints and sages" amusing - many of those wise men were early Christians and Christians today share many of their views - these ideas have been expressed throughout the ages to the present day - they haven't been "lost" until these authors or AA unearthed them. I read this book with a friend - we read a few chapters and then shared our thoughts with one another - we gave up half way through and I was delighted to toss it in the garbage!
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Summary: A lot of words, little content
Review: I am utterly astonished with the positive reviews this book has received. To me, the authors use a lot of words to express very little. The premise of the book, that we are all "imperfect" seems to be a very basic concept - so I kept waiting for the authors to give some positive ideas about how to live out that understanding in a practical way. What I read was a bunch of ying-yang paradoxes leading nowhere. They are very adept at sounding intellectual and use a lot of words rich in spiritual connotation but in the end the material left me with nothing concrete. The authors also have a pretty strong aversion to organized religion although they go out of their way to avoid saying it directly. I found their constant references to the "saints and sages" amusing - many of those wise men were early Christians and Christians today share many of their views - these ideas have been expressed throughout the ages to the present day - they haven't been "lost" until these authors or AA unearthed them. I read this book with a friend - we read a few chapters and then shared our thoughts with one another - we gave up half way through and I was delighted to toss it in the garbage!
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Summary: Favorite books in Sobriety
Review: I have been sober for quite a few 24 hours, and during that time, I have read many spiritual books. I have learned from all of the books I have read; however my two all time favorites are The Spirituality of Imperfection and An Encounter With A Prophet.
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Summary: Simply the best book on Spirituality I have read to date!
Review: I love this book. Great stories. Wonderful insight into humanness. The imperfection of being human. A wonderful book for a recovering people, or for that matter, anyone else.
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Summary: This book is great and I strongly disagree with Susan Alison
Review: I read this book recently and was so impressed not only by the text but also by how beautifully it was written. It's a book written by someone with an open mind and embraces all spiritual beliefs, not solely the traditional, and often times close-minded beliefs of conservative Christians. Read it and you'll be inspired.
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