Best Spiritual Writing 2000

I picked up a book at My Lucky Day. I mean I bought it. It's an anthology of the best spiritual writing of 2000 edited by Philip Zaleski and introduced by Thomas Moore.

The collection in this book is not spiritual the way Heavenletters™ are. This anthology has more autobiographical, biographical, personal stories, realizations and accounts from history and what the author makes of it all.

To give you an idea, one selection in this book, Surprised by Death, was written by James Van Tholan, a thirty-three year old priest who had come down with a rare fatal illness and had been away from his church for seven months getting treatment that could not cure his illness but could and did prolong his life. Now he was back to give this one last sermon for sure, and maybe a few others. He spoke from his heart. He was no longer giving theory. He was speaking from his experience.

Each selection in this book was attempting to come to grips with life and death, good and evil, and give meaning to it all. You have the idea.

There is one thing I really come away with from this book, and I can't seem to find the source now. I may be combining two articles in my head.

It was about Unpardonable Sin. The God in Heavenletters™ that we know doesn't talk about sin. I think He sees ignorance. But, anyway, to get across the point I want to make, we'll say Unpardonable Sin.

A man, so the story goes, searched the world over to find out what the Unpardonable Sin was. After so many years of searching, he finally found what the Unpardonable Sin was.

The sin was simply this:  to put the mind before the heart.

And I will leave it at that.