• SPIRITUAL JOURNEY •
Is this all there is? Life used to be straightforward. One day followed another. Then something changed. My heart opened. BY LYNDA CASEY
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ost people I meet encounter are either on some sort of spiritual journey, or can talk all day about anything, and nothing remotely connected to spirituality is ever mentioned. For some who have never slid up against the idea of spirituality, much less a spiritual journey, there is often a belief that it must be either about traditional religion, or a strange cult— one extreme or the other. Many of us of a certain age have our roots tied to conventional religion. While it is certainly possible to
maintain those roots and still connect to a spiritual journey, some have long since left “the church,” as we might remember it, and have entered another realm of connecting to Divinity, or Essence, or a Higher Truth.
In that moment I had no precise angst about anything in particular, but I recall having this thought enter my mind: “Is this all there is?” While that line may have been made famous by Peggy Lee in 1969 from a song of the same name, I wasn’t thinking about Peggy or those lyrics.
So you may wonder, if not already on such a path, how did we all get here?
However, everything I had ever sensed or known up to that instant seemed to encompass a feeling of finality. I remember thinking, surely this can’t be all there is to life!
For me, it was a beautiful summer day 20 years ago and I was gazing out my living-room window. I am fortunate to live at the end of a cul-de-sac surrounded by forest and other homes mostly secluded by trees.
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