The Importance of a Holistic Spirituality

Mother Teresa spent her life caring for the untouchable class within India's caste system. An abstract spirituality that touches the soul and the mind while ignoring the body is an insult to those who are suffering in the body, she says. We love a holistic take so long as the holistic stays distant and abstract. But when it gets close as close as my city and my neighbors and my body? Well there's the rub isn't it?