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Thursday, May 16, 2013

What is Spirituality?

It is an odd thing
what happens when me make
spirituality
all about things of the mind

Do I believe the right things?
Know the right things?
Understand the "rules"
 
We start to live in our left brain
and life
and faith
and even God
becomes matter of
ideology
and judgement 
 
We end up trapped in our heads
angry, attacking
defnding
manipulating
pushing and pulling
 
in an odd paradox we become
the mirror image of what we opposed
what
if our hearts were honest
we hate (thanks to Richard Rohr)
 
and in our entrenched place
we lose interest in the things
that are at the heart of
the Sacred
 
justice, tolerance, healing,
generosity
curiousity
resolution
revolution
 
 faith
spirituality
is about the heart
it is not intellectual assent
but is about opening up
holding on to hope and truth
and being a reciever
and ultimately a broadcaster
of 
love

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