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Hello everyone,

Michelle Taylor just posted a wonderful article over at the Spirituality Site. She interviewed the religion editors here at Bella to get a picture of how we all experience our spirituality. I thought you might find it interesting.

Spirituality Across the Religions


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I must give credit where it is due; it was an easy article to write, becasue all of you were so forthcoming and bare with your feelings on the matter.

Each person made at least one statement that jumped out at me and made me stop and think really hard.

Lisa (Judaism): "When one is able to maintain the discipline of following the commandments, one experiences a level of freedom that cannot be anticipated"

Trish (Pagan): "Neopagan Druids revere nature, deities, nature spirits, and ancestors as all part of that creative force and therefore allies in our communion with the divine."

Amelia (Wiccan): "I am not just a single person. I am a person, living and caring for my part of the earth."

Jeanette (Buddhism): "Instead of answering to a Higher Power, we answer to ourselves and our own karma. In Buddhism, you are responsible to reach your own enlightenment. No one can do it for you..."

Gaye (Atheism): "Every human being needs a magnificent obsession as the vehicle to achieve full potential, and every individual has the capacity to achieve full potential." (I hate to play favorites, but this one could go down as one of the great quotes of all times)


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I agree on Gaye's quote. Excellent article all of you! laugh


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I liked Gaye's quote too. "magnificent obsession" is fantastic!


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Yeah, that's the part that jumped out at me, too! laugh


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Thank you Michelle for posting this. I love the magnificent obsession quote too.

This is only slight OT, but I vaguely recall a movie with Rock Hudson by the same name that I think was based on a novel. It was an incredibly inspiring story about a man realizing his true potential.

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You know, the more I think about it, there is a very personal reason that Gaye's statement resonated so much with me...

My oldest son has Asperger's Syndrome, and one of the components that he displays the most is the obsessive/compulsive part.

So thast statement really injected me with a feeling of hope and joy, thast his obsessions can be "magnificent" and actually be the thing that leads him to be great in his life insteaed of a disability.

(Need I mention that I have become horribly addicted to the television show "Monk" in the past few months?) grin


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Michelle,

It's wonderful that you have such a great attitude. Your son will be better for it.

I have a relative who has been diagnosed with Asperger's and someone close to me who is considering the possibility of this diagnosis. The obsessive/compulsive aspect can be something that outsiders can be incredibly unkind about. If the person feels accepted by those they love, I think their lives can be so much more fulfilling.


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