There was a time when it seemed to me that spiritual life was all about words. My experience of spiritual life was teaching and preaching, studying and talking to God. Spiritual life was only valuable when it could be put into words. I worked to strengthen the spiritual life in me by talking, reading, writing. Spiritual […]
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We are comfortable around things we can observe and explain. We rely on our ability to understand, to trust what our senses tell us, to analyze and organize things. We are secure when we can recognize cause and effect, find rational reasons, and create order. Spiritual life makes us nervous. Spiritual life goes beyond our control. Spiritual
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We want spiritually rich lives, and we want them now! We do not want to sacrifice anything we already have, or change the things we already do. We do not want to struggle with any of our habits, or opinions, or expectations. Is there a book we can read, or a podcast to which we
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It is easy for us to ignore, get distracted, or procrastinate about spiritual life. Spiritual life can be intimidating. Some people who take spiritual life seriously can come across as intense, or a little out there. Spiritual life can feel confusing, or confining. People who are serious about spiritual life often seem to be speaking about something else
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Some people see spiritual life as enormous. They experience spiritual life as about absolute, universal truths. Even when they are cosmic and philosophical, spiritual life is more than that. Spiritual life is all about deep truths that are beyond our ability to understand and describe. Spiritual life deals with the infinite, which is another concept we cannot truly grasp. Wherever we
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Spiritual life is all about love. Love is the seed of spiritual life, and the soil in which it is planted. Love feeds and nurtures spiritual life. Spiritual life is how we learn to love ourselves. Love is how we share spiritual life with the people around us. Love sparks our appreciation for and commitment
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We believe, deep inside, that spiritual life only happens in certain places, when we act in certain ways. Some of us know that spiritual life means we must wear special clothes, or think special thoughts. It is accompanied by particular music, associated with specific sights, aromas, and tastes. We may associate spiritual life with sitting in silence or joyful dancing,
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Spiritual life is not a pill we take to make us happy. Spiritual life does not always make me feel happy or satisfied. Some of the greatest lessons spiritual life has taught me are lessons of lamentation and grief. Some of the best gifts I have been given come from my own dissatisfactions. For some, spiritual life
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Jo Piazza is not a nun. She states clearly in If Nuns Ruled the World that she does not see herself as a religious person. She asks good questions and writes insightfully about the ten women she meets on the journey of her book. If Nuns Ruled the World explores the lives of ten nuns and the differences they
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Spiritual life is not designed for speed. We tend to evaluate our lives based on a desire to accumulate as much as we can in the shortest possible time. Whether we focus on resources or relationships, experiences or education, we want to live quickly. We collect adventures, friends, meals; squeezing them into our already overcommitted schedules. We believe that
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