Breakfast at the Victory: The Mysticism of Ordinary Experience

In Breakfast at the Victory: The Mysticism of Ordinary Experience James P. Carse reflects upon happenings in his life which have been "bounded by the boundless." The author, who has been director of religious studies and professor of literature and religion at New York University since 1966, believes that "the highest achievement of the spiritual life is within the full embrace of the ordinary....Our appetite for the big experience — sudden insight, dazzling vision, heart-stopping ecstasy — is what hides the true way from us." –Spirituality and Practice