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\u201cSpirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion.\u00a0 Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning, and purpose to our lives.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Bren\u00e9 Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection, p64<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Her definition of spirituality is one that I like very much.\u00a0 I agree with it intellectually, but I rarely have a felt sense of the compassion, and a felt sense is what makes something real to me.\u00a0 It\u2019s easier to see connection in the physical universe, and of course humans are connected on on the physical level, to an extent that we have lost awareness of.\u00a0 In a smaller world it\u2019s obvious.\u00a0 In our world \u2014 I once worked it out: this paper I\u2019m writing on is made from tree pulp.\u00a0 Someone cut down the trees, someone else transported them to the paper factory, someone else ran the machinery…\u00a0 the man who drove the truck used gasoline from an oil field, and is connected to all the people who work there…\u00a0 and he ate food grown and transported and sold and cooked by other people…\u00a0 and on and on.\u00a0 I am connected to all these people by this piece of paper.\u00a0 Even the sun comes into it, and the rain, they helped the tree grow.\u00a0 That we are also connected by fields \u2014 electromagnetic, gravitational, psychological \u2014 seems obvious to me in some ways, but I\u2019m too habituated to individualism and isolation to be able to feel the connection.\u00a0 Rooted in compassion is a little harder, but I can\u2019t see how there would be any compassion at all if it didn\u2019t already exist in some form at the simplest level.\u00a0 In the atoms and molecules, ready to emerge as soon as the right level of complexity<\/a> is reached.\u00a0 There is scientific evidence, now, that compassion is \u201chard-wired\u201d in humans<\/a>.\u00a0 I don\u2019t believe for a moment that humans are basically selfish, violent, and greedy.\u00a0 I think those behaviors are a result of being hurt and scared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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