Love this: “Paradox may be the only true reality. At the very least, it may be the key to accessing more of reality than we usually allow. Embracing paradox allows the mind to step back just enough for something bigger to emerge.”
PLEASE! Would you comment on the connection between the mysticism Dr. Quinn so eloquently describes and the article the other day which describes "spirituality" as something subjective and personal, along with the idea you can't have spirituality without religion?
Isn't the essence of what Dr. Quinn is writing about the fact that spirituality is infinite, everywhere, that EVERYTHING (including the vast majority of human endeavors which don't involve the rituals or ideas or beliefs people put under the label 'religion") is spiritual - that spirituality is not some feeling that solipsistically resides in the individual (and come to think of it, isn't a lot of modern religion much more solipsistic? even the Sunday or Saturday morning or Friday evening ritual of talking or preaching on ethics disconnected from the other 140 or so hours of the week?
Hey Don, I think you make a fair point. It seems to me that there certainly is a good deal of non-religious spirituality that is disciplined and serious and works for its practitioners (and there is a lot of classical religiosity that does the same). In short, there can be healthy and less healthy versions of both things.
Thanks Adam. I've been to services at both temples here in Asheville - I think if a mystically (and musically!) inclined Rabbi was here, I would be inclined to go again!
hard to find spiritually grounded religion in today's world, unfortunately.
Love this: “Paradox may be the only true reality. At the very least, it may be the key to accessing more of reality than we usually allow. Embracing paradox allows the mind to step back just enough for something bigger to emerge.”
Dr. Quinn, Rabbi Jacobs or someone:
PLEASE! Would you comment on the connection between the mysticism Dr. Quinn so eloquently describes and the article the other day which describes "spirituality" as something subjective and personal, along with the idea you can't have spirituality without religion?
Isn't the essence of what Dr. Quinn is writing about the fact that spirituality is infinite, everywhere, that EVERYTHING (including the vast majority of human endeavors which don't involve the rituals or ideas or beliefs people put under the label 'religion") is spiritual - that spirituality is not some feeling that solipsistically resides in the individual (and come to think of it, isn't a lot of modern religion much more solipsistic? even the Sunday or Saturday morning or Friday evening ritual of talking or preaching on ethics disconnected from the other 140 or so hours of the week?
Hey Don, I think you make a fair point. It seems to me that there certainly is a good deal of non-religious spirituality that is disciplined and serious and works for its practitioners (and there is a lot of classical religiosity that does the same). In short, there can be healthy and less healthy versions of both things.
Thanks Adam. I've been to services at both temples here in Asheville - I think if a mystically (and musically!) inclined Rabbi was here, I would be inclined to go again!
hard to find spiritually grounded religion in today's world, unfortunately.