Posted March 9, 2009 by Marina Smith, ssa, Community Relations Coordinator
Patricia Houston sent me an article by John O’Donohue, and I thought this bit (the opening paragraph) really hits home about what we want to do at Queenswood.
“The force of the unknown confers a particular intensity on human life. If there is such a thing as spirituality, it surely roots here in the yearning for a sense of meaning. Spirituality could be defined as the call of individual complexity for meaning, integration, healing and belonging. Spirituality is more than the pious attitude of the explicitly religious. It is the deeper yearning of every life. The degree of yearning can range from the person who scarcely acknowledges transcendence to the person who lives a fully contemplative life. Every life is confronted by the infinite at some point or other."
(John O’Donohue, The Irish Times, Christmas Eve, 2000)
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