The holiness of spiritual journey
As the summer winds down and vacations wind down, people are back to the everyday grind, the everyday, "ordinariness" of life. We are also in the midst of the season of Pentecost, the "Ordinary Time" of our liturgical season. Do you need to leave home to experience the holy? The Washington Post's "On Faith" column takes on the question of leaving home and going on pilgrimage to experience the holy. How does your spiritual tradition take on the practice of pilgrimage, of spiritual journey?
Eat, pray, travel?
From Washington Post's "On Faith" blog
Eat, pray, travel?In the memoir Eat, Pray, Love, writer Elizabeth Gilbert gives up her entire way of life to spend a year traveling the world, finding spiritual enlightenment along the way. Julia Roberts, who plays Gilbert's character in the movie version out this week, apparently found enlightenment of her own through the role, revealing that she has become a practicing Hindu.
As Joan Ball asks in a Guest Voices post, "Is it possible to live a life of deep, transformational faith without dropping everything and hitting the road?"
In your tradition, what is the aim of the spiritual journey?
