I've recently discovered the spiritual psychotherapist David Richo. A very good read is "The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them," Shambhala Press, 2005. The five unavoidable "givens" in life are: 1) Everything changes and ends, 2) Things do not always go according to plan, 3) Life is not always fair, 4) Pain is part of life, 5) People are not loving and loyal all the time. It's interesting how he uses various spiritual traditions, mostly Buddhism, to arrive at a point of acceptance for these five givens, which he claims are primary sources of our unhappiness. I'm also currently reading Matthew Fox's "Creation Spirituality," which has a really impressive rewrite of Genesis.
I've recently discovered the spiritual psychotherapist David Richo. A very good read is "The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them," Shambhala Press, 2005. The five unavoidable "givens" in life are: 1) Everything changes and ends, 2) Things do not always go according to plan, 3) Life is not always fair, 4) Pain is part of life, 5) People are not loving and loyal all the time. It's interesting how he uses various spiritual traditions, mostly Buddhism, to arrive at a point of acceptance for these five givens, which he claims are primary sources of our unhappiness. I'm also currently reading Matthew Fox's "Creation Spirituality," which has a really impressive rewrite of Genesis.