Embracing Difficulty and Spiritual Practices

The chapter delves into the benefits of facing challenges and the rewards that come with embracing difficulty, highlighting how spiritual practices can lead to feeling more alive despite initial skepticism. It discusses how individuals may use distractions and various spiritual paths to avoid addressing internal suffering, emphasizing the importance of having a robust philosophy of suffering and expressing spirituality through incarnational theology. The conversation also explores the significance of physical objects in spirituality, emphasizing the need to distinguish between what is truly necessary for spiritual growth and what constitutes spiritual clutter or excess.