I'm God; You're Not: Observations on Organized Religion & Other Disguises of the Ego

Flashes of insight sometimes startling, always entertaining from one of the most creative spiritual writers in
America. New in paperback!

Tapping the experiences and wisdom of his career as a spiritual leader, Lawrence Kushner delights, surprises, challenges and inspires us. With his signature candor, wit and compassion, he helps us reconnect with the why and how of our spiritual lives. He encourages us to find new perspectives on the life-stuff that shapes them, and gently reminds us of the Source of it All.

These inspiring often tartling insights will warm you during the dark times of your own doubts even as they brighten your quest for meaning, faith, identity, community and holiness.

The goal of all spiritual life is to get your ego out of the way outwit the sucker; dissolve it; shoot it; kill it. Silence the incessant planning, organizing, running, manipulating, possessing, and processing that are the ineluctable redoubts of the ego. Not because these activities are bad or wrong or even
narcissistic ... but because they preclude awareness of the Divine. To paraphrase the Talmud, God says, There ain t room enough in this here world for your ego and Me. You pick.

from the Introduction