I am reading many things lately that resonate with me so deeply that I simply can't leave them locked away in the Ivory Tower.

Here is a short passage about the meaning of spirituality:

"The term spirituality as currently used, indicates both the unity at the heart of religious traditions and the transformative inner depth or meaning of those traditions. . . . It supplies a term which transcends particular religions and it suggests a non-reductionist understanding of human life. It is more firmly associated than religion with creativity and imagination, with change, and with relationship. It is less associated in the popular mind with hierarchies of gender, race or culture.

It indicates an engagement with, or valuing of human experience and expression through art and music, through a response to nature and to ethical ideals as well as through the great religious traditions. It can embrace secular therapies and cosmologies as well as concerns with the environment. Thus it seems to include both sacred and secular, and to enable a fundamental rethinking of religious boundaries.

Its very ambiguity and flexibility suggests a richness and texture which allows traditional religious maps to be redrawn and minorities to find a voice [and this also] makes it a more flexible concept than religion and encourages the user to reflect and to challenge institutionalized thought."

By: King, Anna S. (1996) ‘Spirituality: Transformation and Metamorphosis’, Religion 26:343–51.

So beautiful (sigh). And yes, it is an incredibly romantic rainy day here on the West Coast.