If you fall in the latter group, and you're a business owner, you can't cut yourself off from messy reality — your business requires you to stay plugged in. (inc.com)
Yeah, that's a terribly seductive & persuasive come - on line, but one that's divorced from the often messy reality. (wexboy.wordpress.com)
Its ritual absolutes and rules look legalistic, rubric - mad today: but they spoke with a sure confidence of the sacramentality of life, the rootedness of the sacred not in pious feelings of «spirituality,» not in our heads or even exclusively our hearts, but in the gritty and messy realities of life, birth, death, water and stone and fire, bread and wine.» (firstthings.com)