Q: Can you offer some advice on how to live with everyday spirituality? I tend to get off course.
A: Being human offers daily challenges and we all tend to get off our path. Everyday spirituality can mean different things to us all. Perhaps by looking at it as not an escape from your daily life in search of someone or something special, rather surrender to the fullness of every experience. As author Ram Dass states, “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
You may want to look at all of life is a spiritual experience, therefore, you won’t be searching and seeking the how too. Practice embracing your humanness, not running from it, and look within at the gift you already are just by being you. Being human is not a loss of spirit, rather an opportunity for the spirit to enjoy this life in the physical plane. You are not separate from spirit in your human body. You are here because you are loved and you chose to be here. You are connected to all life. That in itself is living with everyday spirituality.
There is a saying I like to use with my clients and in my seminars:
“The Earth is my Mother,
The next time you want to feel connected to the world around you, go outside, sit down on the earth, and repeat this to yourself silently, or out loud, and between each repetition, take a deep breath, and you will feel your connection to wholeness and you will know peace and everyday spirituality.