What is spirituality?

What is Spirituality?

Many of us have been brought up to think of spirituality as something that happens in a sacred building, requires others who worship like you do, and that it requires ceremony and rules and rituals.

To me, spirituality is applied. What is the energy that you embody as you walk through your day?

Is it kindness, caring, compassion, friendship, generosity, nurture, peace, joy, love?

Or is it lack, judgement, not-good-enoughness, envy, fear, entitlement, superiority, disconnection?

If you meet the world with the second type of frequency, all the holy houses in the world and all the rituals are not going to connect you with your spiritual Self.

If you carry the first kind of energies, you are living as spiritual being whether you go to a holy house or not.

You can see the sacred everywhere and in everyone. You can connect deeply with other beings, and know that they are kin, whether they are human or not. You can feel the sacred and the beauty of different places on the Earth, in all their diversity. You treat others with respect, kindness, care and compassion, whether you agree with them or not. You can feel the pain of violence, whether the people are “your” people or not. You can see what connects all living beings.

You meet the world with love and gratitude in your heart. (Side note: you are not expected to be a saint who does nothing but vibrate at this frequency. Life happens to all of us, and getting angry or sad or impatient is a part of the human experience. This all refers to what your usual baseline frequency is.)

If you meet the world with love and gratitude in your heart you are expressing your spirituality. And then you can gather with others and perform rituals and ceremonies and sing and connect in holy places, and feel uplifted and nurtured by the experience, if you so wish.