“It is of paramount importance that our spirituality be validated or confirmed by fidelity to our personal experience. A spiritual tradition that is only received from history or from family makes no real difference in a person’s life, for he or she is living by conditioned reflexive response. Only what is experientially true is worthy of a mature spirituality.” SpiritualityFamilyTraditionPersonal ExperienceConditioned ResponseMature Spirituality Book:Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up Source: Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up
“Brennan didn’t look exactly like Raif to Shayla’s eyes, but for someone who didn’t know either man particularly well, they probably looked like twins, separated at birth by twenty or so years.” BrennanConditioned ResponseRaifShayla Book:Conditioned Response Source: Conditioned Response