Lindbergh_writing - The Monday Morning Memo

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

– Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.

– David Hare

“When a blue-collar, average Joe hears the word ‘spiritual,’ he’ll frequently hee-haw and spit. It sounds sissy, elitist and heretical to him, a threat to his masculinity and a contamination of the patriotic and religious detergents with which his brain has been thoroughly washed. When cool urban cynics hear the word, they sneer. It’s an affront to their existential hipness.

For many others, it’s a reminder of the legions of charlatans, frauds, and self-deluded dilettantes who are making money by hawking various brands of ‘spiritual’ guidance. Then, too, are the innocent airheads who go about broadcasting embarrassing streams of woo-woo in their everyday lives (and who are frequently the victims of the con-artist gurus.)

These folks – some greedy, some ignorant, some just sweetly naive – have all contributed to the aura of suspicion that surrounds the word ‘spiritual’ in contemporary American society. That’s indeed unfortunate, because spirituality, when pure, connects us to the godhead with infinitely more efficacy and grace than does religiosity.”

- Tom Robbins, novelist, in an interview with Andrea Miller of the Shambhala Sun, July 1, 2008

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