What Is Spirituality?

Spirituality has a multitude of faces and interpretations. Depending on who you ask and what their background is, you will find a wide range of description, value, and validity. Spirituality can be a person’s source of meaning. Spirituality might be superstitious or misleading to others. Hearing the word “spirituality” spoken can evoke a sense of serenity in some and utter disdain in others.

Our relationship to spirituality, our understanding of spirituality, remains in a constant state of evolution.   Whether we embrace it and seek it out, or if we choose to ignore and despise it all together does not matter. Spirituality is simply what is, the grand show, life. Every aspect of reality is spiritual.

There is no escaping our relationship to reality, the journey of self-discovery, to “Know Thyself.”  Whether a person identifies as spiritual or strict atheist does not matter; the experience of life, the existence of life, is what the word spirituality seeks to point to. Each one of us is wrapped into this process of existence, thus we are all processing it as well. How we wish to identify or label our relationship to it matters not. 

Spirituality is any and everything that is and is not. It is impossible for something to not be spiritual. Spirituality isn’t limited to particulars.  Spirituality isn’t defined by value judgment.  The actions we take, the lives we live, are not more or less spiritual than another. Spirituality is existence. Existence is spiritual. There is nothing to exclude, there is nothing missing; there is only the unfolding and enfolding that must occur.