Spirituality and Wellness

The Spirit in Wellness

How are you today? Last week­end mil­lions of peo­ple were feel­ing great phys­i­cally, men­tally, emo­tion­ally and spir­i­tu­ally. Where you one of those mil­lions of peo­ple?  On Fri­day I had com­pleted read­ing “With Head and Heart”, the auto­bi­ograpy of Howard Thur­man, the Dali Lama was stream­ing from the Uni­ver­sity of Wash­ing­ton in Seat­tle, WA and Pope Bene­dict had arrived in New York. It could only get bet­ter if Daisaku Ikeda had arrived from Japan and they were all meet­ing with Dr. King and Mahat­mas Ghandi!  Dr. King car­ried with him and read pas­sages from Thurman’s book, ” Jesus and the Dis­in­her­ited” dur­ing the course of his life.  Howard Thur­man had a pri­vate meet­ing in India with Ghandi. He also met with Dr. King when he was in the hos­pi­tal for the treat­ment of an almost fatal stab wound.

All of these great human beings believed and believe in the con­nec­tion between Spirit and one’s inner spirit and wellness/health. In his address at the U.N.,  Pope Bene­dict spoke about dis­cern­ment and ‘the pos­si­bil­ity of a social order respect­ful of the dig­nity and right of the person.…conversion of the heart…’.

More Heart and Spirit

I’m now read­ing “Med­i­ta­tions of the Heart” by Howard Thurman. In it he wrote, ‘We express our dis­like for things, some­times for peo­ple, when we do not unde­stand the things we pre­tend to dis­like;.…. ’

‘If I knew you and you knew me,

And each of us could clearly see

By that inner light divine

The mean­ing of your heart and mine;

I’m sure that we would dif­fer less

And clasp our hands in friendliness,

If you knew me, and I knew you’

How are you? How do you feel? Spir­i­tu­ally, emo­tion­ally, men­tally, phys­i­cally?  What is the con­nec­tion for you?