When I speak of spirituality, I am addressing the whole underpinning of our life that creates connection, aliveness, meaning. I am not exploring what one might call religious concerns in the customary sense.

Spirituality is the how of our life, the experiencing of it. It is not a noun, not something one can purchase at the store or be given from the pulpit. It is the ever widening stream of awareness that reframes for us the story we are living, while we are living it. It is how we understand ourselves as part of a larger story, a larger reality.

Spirituality is not about making us feel comfortable or providing answers and rules we can follow to make us feel safe, but is always stretching us, obliging us to grow and experience the edge of something just beyond our grasp. It invites us to outgrow ourselves and our normal ways of seeing things.

It is a dialogue, an open ended conversation with an other that is always going on at the core of us. It springs from our depths and from beyond our depths, an ever widening circle that spirals around a center, an other. We experience something profound going on; we realize we have unexpectedly bumped into the holy, the numinous, the deepest realm of experience. Everything takes on a voice and speaks to us.

Spirituality is more about aliveness than about truth. It is something we experience, not something we know. Life becomes more interesting, becomes an “I-Thou” encounter that invites us to a deeper connection with all living things — with nature, with the earth, with our relationships, with the ever-broadening creative process that blows away our narrow expectations.

It is authentically personal, created out of our own metaphors or experiences of what constitutes the sacred for us. No one can craft or tell or judge another’s spirituality. It has to resonate within us personally or it does not impact the way we live our life. It has to address us in our own imaginative and emotional language, in our own personal experience. It is the way we integrate, incorporate pieces of ourselves we are not yet aware of and yet know on an intuitive, felt level. It is the lens through which we see what lies behind the reality before us.

Spirituality seeks us out in both the lit places and the dark places of life. If we wait upon the darkness of any experience to speak, it will reveal itself to us, eventually, in its own language. Darkness holds the light. Light holds the darkness. Spirituality is stepping beyond dualistic thinking, dualistic living. It is in the knowing and in the not knowing that we open ourselves to what lies just beyond our conscious grasp. It is an embrace of the divinity of our essence and the humanity of our circumstance.

Our spirituality does not do away with the fear of being wounded. It reframes, penetrates, and offers a way through the wound, so that the ordinary, everyday woundings we encounter become openings into deeper consciousness. We may still fear being wounded — as the particular hurt of it is yet unknown — but we move into a place where we no longer fear the wound itself. The wound becomes, for us, revelatory of a deeper way of living: We are all one, all connected in the ongoing process of life’s becoming, all bound together in trying to unleash the creative potential in our human nature.

Spirituality arises from our center, our personal center, a center that stretches back to that eternal Center from which all life as we know it came. We come to know ourselves in our deepest sense and that our greatest asset is that we share a connection with all living things. All things are living, alive with the sacred energy from which it sprang.

The articles offered at this site run the gamut of experience, addressing spirituality in a kaleidoscope of ways. I hope one of these ways speak to you.