Colette Livermore was born in Mittagong, Australia, in 1954. At 17, she had been accepted to medical school but chose to join Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity instead, after seeing a film about Mother's work with the poor. As a nun she was called Sister Tobit and was with the order for 11 years, serving in India, Hong Kong, Timor, and the poor outback of Australia. After she left the order in 1983, at age 30, Livermore went back to medical school and ultimately attained her medical degree from the University of Queensland. Since then, she has worked in Australia's Northern Territory, where the despair facing the aboriginal and other people in remote communities affected her deeply, in Aileu, East Timor, where she worked with local staff at a rural clinic to overcome tuberculosis, malnutrition, and infectious disease, and again in Australia, where she currently lives.
"Hope Endures is one of the most fascinating accounts of the
spiritual journey I have ever read. It emphasizes the importance of
a direct, unmediated approach to the Source, the Absolute, God,
however named. The Christian version of Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali,
this book is an affirmation for those to whom blind obedience and
submission to established creeds do not ring true, and who hunger
for something more authentic than dogma. This ringing endorsement
of spiritual freedom is more important than ever, in view of the
threat posed by religious fundamentalism around the world." --
Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Healing Words and Reinventing
Medicine
"Hope Endures is compelling. Livermore perfectly captures our
yearning to want life to fit our spiritual ideals, only to learn it
never will. But we cannot help but continue to walk the path. This
book is superb." -- Caroline Myss, author of Entering the Castle,
Invisible Acts of Power, and Anatomy of the Spirit
"This penetrating book unveils the blindness that lurks in many
spiritual organizations and traditions, and confronts an issue that
still corrupts contemporary religious organizations -- naïve belief
used to justify ignorance, obedience, and neglect rather than to
galvanize social change, improve lives, and foster spiritual
connections. As her compelling story unfolds, Ms. Livermore slowly
realizes that she and her fellow nuns are being taught to
'spiritualize' their own emotional abuse, and she can no longer
submit to it. Like all good stories, this one involves a strong,
public personality -- Mother Teresa -- and the clash between
extremes of innocence and authority. Reading this clear-eyed book
is a good first step toward dealing with the shadow side of
spirituality and to opening a door to a brighter, more mature way
of being in the world." -- Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul
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