MY DEFINITION OF SPIRITUALITY

Religion is a structure, a limiting construct, like its church buildings, where spiritual events may happen at times.

Spirituality is formless and limitless. It fills us and surrounds us and can be experienced and practiced by anyone at any time.

It is our awareness of being 'with' or 'led by' or 'in' the Light.

We can feel communal spiritual experiences by coming together, as in [Quaker] Meeting for Worship; but the Spirit (Light, God/dess, or whom/ what we conceive as the Absolute) is always with us.

Spirituality is our way of relating to that Divine Energy.
© Ramona K. Silipo. All rights reserved.
FOUNDATION  FOR
HOLISTIC SPIRITUALITY

As best we can, we have developed these definitions to be appropriate for the contemporary context.

'Spirituality'
The natural human connection with the wonder and energy of nature, cosmos and all existence; and the instinct to explore and understand its meaning.

'Holistic'
Everything is connected. You can understand a whole only by looking at its parts. You can understand a part only by looking at its whole. Celebrate diversity and connection. 

(from the web site of the Foundation for Holistic Spirituality)

LINK: http://www.f4hs.org/
Last updated: July 7, 2011
More to come . . .