What You Believe
Does Your Own Belief System:
- Perceive itself as the Object itself… or instead as one of many fingers pointing to the greater object of that faith?
- Lean toward possessing and constricting God… or allowing God to remain beyond anything that we can ever really understand, define, and describe?
- Seek certainty… or respect the eternal mystery of the ultimately incomprehensible?
And with what effect?
How Your Spirituality is Communicated
Does It:
- Use words and language with hubris… or with humble, always incomplete, and ever-evolving symbols?
- Focus more on preaching and commanding… or on actually practicing love every day in an inclusive and active way?
- Tend to require constant sound, activity, and dialogue… or celebrate stillness and silence in worship, prayer, and practice?
And with what effect?
How You Practice Your Spirituality
Do You:
- Depend on unchanging and exclusive doctrine… or embrace curiosity and expansiveness in your thinking and beliefs?
- Generally define your faith through possession of sacred knowledge… or allow your individual human experience with the Divine to more fully enter in?
- Focus on having arrived and being ‘saved’… or on continuously ‘becoming’ in your life?
And with what effect?
Who’s Included in Your Spirituality?
Does Your Faith:
- Live as if it’s the only way… or as only one of many possible ways to greater, more transcendent truths?
- Operate within a framework of imposed patriarchy and hierarchy… or welcome and embed diverse participation, ideas, empowered wisdom, and leadership from everyone?
- Build walls between each other… or tear them down?
And with what effect?
