Reflection
Spirituality is a way of life, and as such, it cannot be separated from our everyday activities. John Shea, a contemporary Catholic theologian, puts it this way: “The spiritual life is, at root, a matter of seeing. It is all of life seen from a certain perspective. It is waking, sleeping, dreaming, eating, drinking, working, loving, relaxing, recreating, walking, sitting, standing, and breathing. . . . Spirit suffuses everything; and so the spiritual life is simply life, wherever and whatever, seen from the vantage point of spirit.”
Spirituality ands Practice
Prayer
The world is filled with the glory of God.
Action
Is your spiritual life compartmentalized? Do you believe you can separate what you profess to embrace as a follower of Jesus from how you act and interact? Take some time to reflect on this and its implications.
Suggested Reading
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
1 John 3:18
Everything can be accepted and integrated into our life in this world, and become a part of our path to holiness. We are called to be contemplatives even in the midst of action.
Pope Francis
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
True spirituality is a mental attitude you can practice at any time.
Dalai Lama
Spirituality: the art of keeping your internal fire alive.
Maxime Lagacé
Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
Jose Saramago
Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not.
Deepak Chopra