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What Is Spirituality?
To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence.
— N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa)
“…you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you’re estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critically important to see generously, or you will get only what you see; to see sharply, so that you discern the mix of traits rather than a generalized lump; and to see deeply into dark shadows, or else you will be deceived.”
― James Hillman, The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling
The religious function is probably the strongest drive in the human psyche. If it is not directed toward its natural goal, it loads up the other areas of life and gives them an unmerited emotionality.”
~Marie-Louise von Franz, Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales
How do we approach what it means to be alive? How can we live as more than culturally conditioned robots? Is spirituality in our beliefs or is it in our inner experience of living?
Being truly alive implies resisting the pressures to conform to a sick society. Being spiritual implies deconstructing our cluttered mental landscape so that we have room for relationship with the Actual.
