What do you mean when you say the word?
Once a term relegated to religious and fringe groups, spirituality has now fully entered the mainstream. Some people love the term because it express an expansive truth that goes beyond any one theology or worldview. Others dislike it because it’s become cliché.
Honestly, I go back and forth between these two positions. However, I’ve found the word more useful than not. In this video, I’d share a framework I developed over the years for making sense of the meaning of spirituality in my own life.
I hope it helps you as you try to makes sense of your own spirituality.
Others dislike it because it HAS become cliché.
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This is a wonderful explanation of spirituality that really got me thinking! The beauty of your reflection is that it continually comes full circle. So, restlessness leads us toward expansiveness, which leads to the paradoxes in life, and when we miss the paradox – to use one of your examples – when we put others down, we are weak, rather than strong – we end up back in a restless state. Your explanation helped me grasp how it is that so many that I know, who are absolutely beautiful people, yet who profess atheism, are so beautiful! They do not need to recognize God to experience Him! God, who is paradox, who is the author of restlessness in that He plants the desire in us to grow out of ourselves, and recognize that we cannot be happy when the world is unhappy, is working in them. Spirituality then, is paradoxically not religious behaviors or actions!