21 Things I Did, Exploring Spirituality Beyond Institutional Religion

21 Things I Did, Exploring Spirituality Beyond Institutional Religion:

1. I made peace with my religious past.

2. I took responsibility for my spiritual journey.

3. I stopped dividing up the world into “sacred” and “secular”.

4. I began listening to and trusting my inner voice.

5. I started looking past the externals, and relating to the deepest reality I knew was present in every human being.

6. I quit making my humanity the enemy.

7. I resisted the need to build a persona around being an enlightened person.

8. I opened myself to the rhythm and flow of life in nature.

9. I explored what it meant to truly be “present” in life and became a student of my spiritual aura and energy.

10. I focused on addressing the root of my suffering.

11. I paid attention to my deepest desires and passions.

12. I sought to cast off my fictitious self, and be an authentic and fully-expressed me.

13. I explored the connection between spirituality and sexuality.

14. I expanded my relational world beyond religious sub-culture.

15. I resisted creating a new religion out of my latest discovery.

16. I operated with the assumption that every human being knew something I needed to know.

17. I resisted latching onto the latest guru, and began seeing all people as my teachers.

18. I explored new fields and areas of interest that were largely unknown to me.

19. I gave up the idea of needing to accomplish some epic thing for God.

20. I approached my life as a reality I was free to create.

21. I became interested and involved in the lives of people I encountered naturally along the everyday paths of my life.