by Brad Brown
Guidelines to Spirituality offers a rare perspective on the nature of the spiritual domain from a non-religious, non-doctrinal perspective. As a record of the author’s own spiritual journey, it will be a precious resource to all who seek to embrace the realm of the sacred in the midst of a secular world.
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Vania Phtides –
Spirituality always speaks to me. I don’t know how the right piece so often appears at just the right time, but five minutes ago my daughter was upset, emotional, and lying on our living room floor. The book was on the table, open at this page: I may never know the right thing to do in most situations. I can discover how to be. That is enough. I chose to open my heart to her struggle instead of shutting down, as I was sorely tempted to do.
Zoe Grace Cozens –
This book challenges me again and again to find meaning and connection in things exactly as they are right now, to come forward and meet reality with an emotional, spiritual, and physical YES. It has enabled me to enter a place of stillness and quiet, then step out fully into my life again.
Long before I had this book, I believed that God was to be found in daily reality, so its messages immediately resonated with me. They also urge me to go further into these connections, and find God in everything that has happened in my past, my present, and in my vision of the future. Today’s reading: “In the domain of the soul, everything blesses me, If we let it in…”
Colette Stevens –
I’m not a churchgoer, so I’m grateful that Brad’s work and practice have provided me with a way to reconnect with my spirituality that makes sense to me. As this piece says: “I may never know the right thing to do in most situations. I can discover how to be. That is enough.” This helps me with the ongoing work of letting go of my mind’s belief that it knows what the ‘right’ way is, and surrender to the way Life is.
“Another favourite: “A complete and definitive ‘yes’ to life can never be unconscious or habitual. It emerges again and again from the ‘I’ that chooses itself.” I am reminded that I need to notice when I’m doing a kind of pseudo-acceptance, an ‘enlightened’ version of ‘It Is As It Is’, instead of a real and true acceptance, which is always also a moment of awakening.