To walk the spiritual path is to continually step into the unknown.*
Wallace Huey

You are strong, self-sufficient, you make time for reading, thinking, quiet contemplation, meditation, or prayer. This need not cost a penny.**
Tom Hodgkinson

To be spiritual is not to be religious,
It is to be human,
We not only step out into the unknown,
We also step into the magnificent unknownness
of our personal humanity …
At no extra cost,
Out of which we discover the truer extent
of our generativeness and creativity,
Being comprised by the physical, emotional, cerebral, and spiritual;
Brian McLaren highlights the conflict within us:
Something in us wants to be consistent.
But something in us also wants to keep growing,
and growing often means changing.
So those two desires often conflict.^

Perhaps it’s time to pause and
lean into the conflict,
Noticing it, being prepared to be with it,
Listening to what it is trying to say –
Now you’re meditating.^^

*Jonathan Hoban’s Walk With Your Wolf;
**Tom Hodgkinson’s Business For Bohemians;
^Brian McLaren’s Faith After Doubt;
^^Meditation can look like many things; check out Hugh Macleod doodling while listening to jazz as one example. What is most important is to find the ways that allow us to listen to what is within and without.