Summary Of Karen Armstrong's The Moral Staircase

In Karen Armstrong’s The Spiral Staircase, she tells the story of her lifelong experience with spirituality and religion, beginning with her time in a convent. This was a very interesting memoir to read, as you get a firsthand account of this persons long and complicated struggle with religion, told honestly about her experience. No matter what you believe, it seems you could easily find something to gain from this book, as she does not push religion as something one must find to be happy in life, but rather details her struggle in finding something that worked for her in finding fulfillment. Reading about Karen’s struggle to find peace and happiness in her life, is something we could all relate to, as it is a very human story of feeling lost and
Finally you feel the relief right alongside her as her symptoms culminate into a seizure, and a doctor at long last provides her with a diagnosis of epilepsy: an easily identifiable condition which is totally treatable. A huge part of her journey out of darkness, was simply to find treatment for her health issues, and once she starts getting this treatment it seems to help tremendously. This is also around the time Karen experienced her second great failure, as her thesis was failed and she found she could not work in a scholastics. She gets a nice job at a high school, but it seems that she is not happy with this as the atmosphere is too reminiscent of the convent. An interesting thing about Karen, it seems, is that she was not content to live an ordinary life, as seen when she joins a convent at such an early age, and then when she manages to find a perfectly decent job at the high school, which simply does not excite her. Thus, it turns out to be a good thing when she is fired for her health problems, as