If you're in any spirituality or belief system, no matter WHAT it is, that lowers your quality of life; get out!!!
This is just too true.
It took me a long time to find a place where I didn't feel that my spirituality was detracting from my life. I grew up in a space where life and spirituality where separate things and you had to talk about how you were applying the teachings of Jesus to your life. But they were still, in a way, considered separate things.
Now, it's not that I don't have a "spiritual life," but that I've integrated it into my everyday life. They're the same thing. When I'm gardening, I can communicate with the land spirits, for example, and I can pray through motion, through my knitting and my cooking. With a spirituality I can embrace like this, I feel better for it.
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This is just too true.
It took me a long time to find a place where I didn't feel that my spirituality was detracting from my life. I grew up in a space where life and spirituality where separate things and you had to talk about how you were applying the teachings of Jesus to your life. But they were still, in a way, considered separate things.
Now, it's not that I don't have a "spiritual life," but that I've integrated it into my everyday life. They're the same thing. When I'm gardening, I can communicate with the land spirits, for example, and I can pray through motion, through my knitting and my cooking. With a spirituality I can embrace like this, I feel better for it.