If we choose....

Everybody needs somebody to whom they can reveal themselves without fear of punishment or pain. Everybody at sometime in life, struggles with an angel that threatens to overpower them. Contemporary society, with its bent for anonymity and pathological individualism and transience, has institutionalized the process in psychological consulting services and spiritual direction centers.

If we choose spiritual people for our friends and our leaders, if we respect our elders for their wisdom, if we wanted growth rather than comfort, if we ripped away the masks that hide us, and we were willing to have our bleeding selves cauterized by the light of spiritual leadership and the heat of holy friendship, we would, come to the humility that brings real peace.