Unitarians value spirituality, but not in the ways most people define that term.\u00a0 They don\u2019t limit it to scripture reading, attending church services, and prayer.<\/p>\n
Their view of spirituality is more akin to how Catholic monk\u00a0Wayne Teasdale, who supported mutual understanding among world religions and was an active campaigner for\u00a0social justice,\u00a0saw it.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cSpirituality is a way of life that affects and includes every moment of existence. It is at once a contemplative attitude, a disposition to a life of depth, and the search for ultimate meaning, direction, and belonging.\u201d<\/p>\n
Others use visual images to describe spirituality.\u00a0 They may view it as a\u00a0tree with one trunk and many different spiritual branches, or a single mountain with many paths going up, or a river of wisdom tapped by many wells.<\/p>\n
Brother David Steindl-Rast, a Benedictine monk, commented, \u201cSometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of our existence.\u00a0 But rightly understood, it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being. Someone may say, \u2018I come alive when I listen to music\u2019 or \u201cI come to life when I garden\u2019\u2026Wherever we come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual.\u201d<\/p>\n
Author Sarah Bowen uses this simple equation: Spirituality = a deeper perspective + a higher purpose.\u00a0 She says, \u201cCultivating a deeper perspective enables me to see beyond my own needs to the interconnectedness we all share, and living with higher purpose helps me make daily choices that support that connection.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Unitarians value spirituality, but not in the ways most people define that term.\u00a0 They don\u2019t limit it to scripture reading, attending church services, and prayer. Their view of spirituality is more akin to how Catholic monk\u00a0Wayne Teasdale, who supported mutual understanding among world religions and was an active campaigner for\u00a0social justice,\u00a0saw it. He said, \u201cSpirituality … Continue reading Spirituality [#54]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6828"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8841,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6828\/revisions\/8841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}