Rami Shapiro is one of the Living Spiritual Teachers profiled on S&P. He is a prolific writer and frequent retreat leader and has created a batch of spritely e-courses for us. If you have read some of his two dozen books on religion and spirituality, you will be familiar with the breadth of his interests and the depth of his knowledge.
Accidental Grace is a lively and out-of-the-box collection of poetry, prayers, and psalms by this interspiritual pioneer who clarified the term "spiritual but not religious" by reframing those on this path as "spiritually independents." In his poems Shapiro affirms angels, the way of the feminine, the wonder of light and darkness, the grace of unending Divine love, Sabbath moments of rest, spirituality as living with attention, Torah as a whisper of wisdom, and much more.
In "Mirror of All," he concludes with the lines:
"Let me be bold enough to see,
humble enough to feel,
daring enough to turn and
embrace the way of justice, mercy, and simplicity."
His poems achieve those intentions.
