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Spirituality is "breathing
with a sense of the sacred." This
definition of spirituality does
it for me. The writer is Vern
Barnet, a Unitarian minister in
Kansas City, Missouri. He is the
director of the World Faith
Center for Religious Experience
and Study. Both the July/August
and the September/October 2002
issues of Unity Magazine are
filled with other magnificent
thoughts on spirituality - Vern's
article is in the July/ August
issue.
To breathe with a sense of the
sacred is to live in that
consciousness. How wonderful to
live every moment of your life
with a sense of the sacred!
Living with a sense of the
sacred describes a person who
sees beauty and wonder and
supreme value in all things, and
I also think it is a good
definition of love. To love life
is to live with a sense of the
sacred with every breath, in
every moment.
The religions of the world
have been chief antagonists in a
high percentage of the wars of
history, the present included.
But spirituality has never been
involved in war, nor could it
conceivably be.
So now we can understand why
so many of us are saying that we
prefer to think of ourselves as
spiritual rather than
religious.
We see at once that there is
no ethnicity, nor dogma, nor
nationalism in spirituality
because intuitively we see
clearly that the values of
spirituality are all-inclusive,
universal.
The exhaustless scope of
spirituality focusing on all
life, meaning the cosmos, opens
the way for experiencing the
creative cause and reality of
life absent of the attempt to
define it in religious
terminology.
Finally we see that, when we
view our planet and the entire
cosmos as sacred, we are ready to
embrace one another as brothers
and sisters of our sacred human
family!
Don
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