March reading roundup
This month was an intense one as far as reading is concerned since I began studying and applying Mussar to my everyday life. I read three…
Journal category
Spirituality
As you do, so you become
Imagine opening your car’s gas cap and filling the car with a squirt bottle of sunscreen. Or a roll of dimes. Pickles anybody? Of course that’s…
Is compassion an action or a feeling?
Have you ever been in a disagreement with someone and you just knew you were right? You knew that if the other person would only see…
How is humility connected to anger?
Last week I wrote about the concept of a personal spiritual curriculum. One task of Mussar is coming to understand the many “soul traits” that make up every human being…
What is your personal spiritual curriculum?
You have probably thought about what your purpose in life might be. You have identified less-than-admirable traits that you want to work on (for me, one is…
SoulSpacing the rest of your life
Here’s what’s going on with our group… we are in week 7 and we are almost all “behind schedule” and overwhelmed. Doing such an enormous project…