The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
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In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.
If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
A lot of times when you go through a very traumatic situation and it's emotionally difficult to deal with you come back spiritually stronger. It changes you in a way.
A lot of people that embark on spiritual endeavors tended to, especially in the '60s and '70s, they tended to give up what they had before and cut themselves off from their lives, previous life as it were. But, I don't think that one should do that.
We all want to feel spiritually vigorous, and we hurt when we don't. This pain is intensified for people who lead church ministries.
Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.
We all have to go through our own spiritual process. It is very difficult. Some people are struggling and they are in their teens. Some people are in their 50s and they're struggling. Some people go through life and die not being able to accept themselves. Tragic. But it's very individual. And it's about self-esteem.
One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.
Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.
I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.
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