Why searching ourselves in a group setting?
The reason is simple, we human beings find it difficult to know the truth about ourselves; often we cannot see directly by ourselves our own incongruous human mixedness.
Just as the eye cannot reflect on itself, we cannot see our own face without some kind of mirror. The others in the group hold up a human compassionate mirror, they reflect back so we can see more of ourselves.
We are all alike in strengths and flaws. “The nearer I draw to God the more I see myself as being one with every sinner” (S.Tugwell)
As genuine beings we are neither angel nor beasts, the both coexists within us: we are both saints and sinners. It is our twofold nature of being caught between finite and infinite. to be incomplete and yet to yearn for wholeness, that human spirituality embraces.
We humans by ourselves are not enough, we need others to help us and we need others in order to help them. There’s something we all seek: we ache for contact. Separation isolation comparisons are always painful.
To feel linked joined connected to others and to a greater whole is our deepest need……
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