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"Spirituality means aliveness. Spirituality is never a private affair. Grateful living is a building of networks upon networks. It’s a communal affair, and it’s revolutionary."
Brother David Steindl-Rast

“In the cloud of the human soul there is a fire stronger than the lightning, and a grace more precious than the rain.” John Ruskin

“By foregoing beauty for goodness, power for love, grief for gratitude, by entreating the Lord for help to understand our hopes, for strength to resist our fears, we may receive a gentle sense of the holiness permeating the air." Abraham Heschel

Quests on Spirituality

There are 2 Quests. Each Quest has tools to Explore, Reflect and take action. Select one that interests you and get started!

What is evil?

Is man wolf or sheep? Do we have the freedom to choose good rather than evil, life rather than death? What can we do in the face of great evil?

Religion

Can religion exist without superstition, authority, and belief, or the offer of rewards such as life after death? Is religion capable of responding to materialism? Can it reform the acquisitive spirit?

Spirituality

Is there something greater than we ourselves? Does truth, good and beauty exist?
Can spirituality reform the acquisitive spirit? Can it exist without dogma, authority or belief? Is anything sacred anymore?

Explore

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Reflect

What was the most sacred experience in your life?

Reflect on Spirituality: What was the most sacred experience in your life?

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What was the most sacred experience in your life? “Was it a moment of love? A moment of beholding the awe of nature’s beauty or being moved by a stirring song, the birth of a child or being in the presence of a wise person?”

In what ways are you devoted to a false god?
Another person? A country, religion, race, idea? How do you identify with it? How have you made it sacred, holy? Is it through fear of being inadequate yourself?

What is sacred to you? The sacred is reality, purpose, being. What is most real to you? What lies in the secret chambers of your heart, in your unconscious? Money? Family? Success? Happiness?

Look for the good. Think of the worst person you know. Do you say bad things about them? Do you treat them with contempt? Can you say one good thing about them?

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Challenge

Stake your life on the existence of a transcendent reality.

Spirituality Challenge

Stake your life on the existence of a transcendent reality. Decide to become capable of spirituality, freedom, love, good.
Begin with humility. Assume that you are ignorant, that every one of your assumptions are incorrect. That everything constructed by society is false. Begin by admitting that you are bewitched, seduced by whatever you are most fond of. Fight the idea that the greatest thing in life is to satisfy your interests or needs.

“By foregoing beauty for goodness, power for love, grief for gratitude, by entreating the Lord for help to understand our hopes, for strength to resist our fears, we may receive a gentle sense of the holiness permeating the air."
Abraham Heschel

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Action

Spiritual community for the modern world

Spirituality Action: Spiritual community for the modern world