Shame Interrupted: How God Lifts the Pain of Worthlessness and Rejection National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (1984) This revered text lays out

This revered text lays out the entire path of inner development in remarkable detail–ranging from practices that build character and mental power to the highest reaches of spiritual realization

skepticism

told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers

and guides us to see past what divides us and discover the beauty of what we have in common

Tezuka evidences his profound grasp of the subject by contextualizing the Buddha’s ideas

Shame Interrupted: How God Lifts the Pain of Worthlessness and Rejection National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (1984) This revered text lays outNo more hiding. Shame controls far too many of us. Worthless, inferior, rejected, weak, humiliated, failure it all adds up to wishing we could get away from others and hide. We know what shame feels like. The way out, however, is harder to find. Time doesn't help, neither does confession, because shame is just as often from what others do to you as it is from what you have done. But the Bible is about shame from start to finish, and, if we are