Crisis is the end-point we reach after intense suffering or a gradual and long-term denial of self. Crisis is the spiritual tipping point, that place from which true spiritual growth quite often can occur.
Some years ago I had a remarkable dream. In it I was a raindrop tumbling from a great, gray cloud and I felt ecstatically free the way one can in flying dreams. Then, suddenly, the clouds parted and below me stretched a vast and…