The spiritual person knows that there is no difference betwen the sacred and the secular, the material and the spiritual. They are all simply part of the Essence, simply stepping stones along the way to the God who is everything there is or needs to be.
Religion itself is not sacred. And if or when it pretends to be, it can stop a soul in mid-flight from ever being able to find God in the midst of life. Then we make the means the end. Then we take a spiritual process designed to help us find God in life and turn it into God. And that is a weak and pathetic substitute for the very meaning of life, the Essence of all things, the magnate to which our souls cling.
from Welcome to the Wisdom of the World and its meaning for you Joan Chittister
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