The knight’s far-flung quest for the grail is legend. If he found the object, he would have in-hand a key to an encompassing truth that would make sense of his life. Today the search for this bigger truth takes place closer to home. Just as exciting, the quest is a creative process, dependent on intelligence, imagination and honesty and answerable to both the moral imperatives to which we are heir and the findings of science.
Archive for January, 2010
Meet the invisible self
Monday, January 18th, 2010Bigger truth, bigger life
Monday, January 4th, 2010When I started this blog last July, I said that stormy days are upon us, that these are volatile frightening times, that our hopes for ourselves, for the whole world, are threatened by this crisis of confidence. The same is true today.
In such times, less sure about how the future will play out, we look beyond our certainties for what constitutes a substantive life. “There,” we hope to find a bigger truth that will give meaning, purpose and hope to our lives and strengthen our ability to provide leadership for those who depend on us.