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Simply Sane: The Spirituality of Mental Health

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Most of us are "addicted to perfection". Always trying to become whom we imagine others want us to become. This leads to much anxiety, depression and loneliness.

"To thy own self be true", we have to care and be gentle with our inner being if we want to go out into the world and love and be loved.

Dr. May gives us direction on how to "let go and let be", to get out of our ego, our own way and become the person we were meant to become. At times this might be seen as "selfish" but one has to understand that you can't give to others what you are denying to give yourself, so "charity begins at home".

Perhaps one of the most profound books on spirituality and mental health.
A learning in life of what it means to "be" while striking down the delusional, crazy system we often live with.

Simply Sane was a required book for a pastoral integration class. I found its ideas very relevant to my own life and future practice and would recommend it to others in the field.

Gerald May is brilliant. Full of soul and wisdom. Simply written, and yet, deeply profound and uplifting.

I have read and thoroughly enjoyed several of May's books. They have been of great help to me during a very difficult time in my life. This one, however, left me cold. May seems to write, in several places, that religion is simply a crutch--which is totally at odds with his philosohpy in his other books. Furthermore, I finished the book and really can't put my finger on what point he was trying to get across except "let it be." How? And why does he say that relgion is a crutch in order to be one's true self? My Christianity IS who I am. It defines me, and certainly in some of May's other works, it seemed to define him, also. I am confused and dismayed. I cannot recommend this work by him.

I've read most of Gerald May's books. This was as good or better than any I have read...maybe better because it was relevant to my "now."