Former nun Karen Armstrong tells us in her luminous book The Spiral Staircase that the wasteland in the Grail Legend is a place “where people live inauthentic lives, blindly following the norms of their society and doing only what other people expect.” How many of us have lived our lives in the wasteland, never daring to step toward the life we dream? Or having taken that first bold step, how many of us turn back, when things get hard, or it seems we’ve lost our way?
Tags: An Everlasting Meal, AUTHENTICITY, FROM THE EDITOR, KAREN ARMSTRONG, REVEL LIFE, Tamar Adler, THE FULLY REALIZED LIFE, The Spiral Staircase