Most people stand
in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being
content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships.
Some travel into the mountains accompanied by experienced guides who know the
best and least dangerous routes by which they arrive at their destination.
Still others, inexperienced and untrusting, attempt to make their own routes.
Few of these are successful, but occasionally some, by sheer will and luck and
grace, do make it. Once there they become more aware than any of the others
that there's no single or fixed number of routes. There are as many routes as
there are individual souls. - Robert M.
Pirsig
Spirituality
exists wherever we struggle with the issue of how our lives fit into the
greater cosmic scheme of things. This is true even when our questions never
give way to specific answers or give rise to specific practices such as prayer
or meditation. We encounter spiritual issues every time we wonder where the
universe comes from, why we are here, or what happens when we die. We also
become spiritual when we become moved by values such as beauty, love, or
creativity that seem to reveal a meaning or power beyond our visible world. An
idea or practice is ‘spiritual’ when it reveals our personal desire to
establish a felt-relationship with the deepest meanings or powers governing
life. - Robert
C. Fuller
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