Spirituality.
Quick Hits
10 random key ideas.
2.
Quote:
- Michael Alan Prestwood.
From History:
Meaning:
Frameworks are human-made interpretations, but truth is measured by alignment with a reality that exists independently of them.
3.
From History: born circa 604 BCE
Laozi’s spirituality wants you to live with humility before the unknowable Dao: live gently, force less, and move in harmony with reality.
4.
Sound does not change pitch when it moves to a new medium. Frequency remains constant while speed and wavelength adjust, revealing the quiet coherence of nature.
5.
Quote:
- Michael Alan Prestwood.
- 2018.
From History:
Meaning:
Ethical life is a disciplined journey of seeking truth, cultivating honor, and reducing unnecessary harm while striving toward layered flourishing.
6.
From History: Lived from 1861 to 1925, aged 64.
Waldorf schools often use natural play spaces because Steiner’s education valued nature, sensory experience, imagination, and the development of the whole child.
7.
Secular Buddhism keeps Buddhist practices and insights, but brackets or rejects the supernatural/metaphysical claims.
8.
Quote:
- Carl Sagan.
- 1979.
From History:
Meaning:
Embrace a secular approach to your spirituality which grounds awe and meaning in observable human experience. Judge spiritual claims against measurable effects.
9.
From History: born 1711
Hume teaches that belief should be earned. Do not believe nothing, and do not believe everything. Let confidence rise with evidence, logic, testing, and lived experience.
10.
Column summary:
Your spirituality does not have to disappear as science advances. It can mature by distinguishing shared empirical reality from personal meaning, faith, mystery, and the unknown.
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