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