Another Quote from Gerald May

I've been consumed with a presention on ethics I'll be offering to the Heart of Texas Counseling Association in a couple of weeks, and so blogging has, once again, fallen to the wayside. However, I wanted to let you in on these words from Gerald May (the formatting is mine): [The dark night of the soul experience] liberates desire by diminishing attachment. The immediate result is expansion of human freedom. Freedom, however, is not an end in itself. It is not just freedom from something; it must also be freedom for something. In the spiritual life, freedom is for nothing other than love. Human beings exist because of love, and the meaning and goal of our lives is love. In Christian understanding, every-thing that is authentic in the spiritual life points toward the increasing fulfillment of the two great commandments: to love God and other people in a completely unfettered way. Liberation from attachment is only a means to this end. Gerald May, The Dark Night of the Soul: A Psychiatrist Explores the Connection Between Darkness and Spiritual Growth, p. 98

Mark Brady's Latest Post: The Neurobiology of Forgiveness

I've referred you to Mark's blog before, but I just finished reading The Neurobiology of Forgiveness, and felt I needed to help get this one out there. Mark is doing an amazing job of distilling reams of science-babble into nuggets we mere peons can grasp. Freud was convinced that ultimately we would discover the biological processes that drive personality and perception. The mystics, past and present, have all been convinced that we are capable of being so much more human than we are. Neurobiology seems to be providing a lens through which to understand the biology of becoming human. I'm telling you.... this stuff is amazing. Of course, that's probably what Copernicus was thinking also...