Walking with the Spiritual but Not Religious Quotes

“Are we writing about our life or is our life writing us? How did we become spiritual but not religious?”
― Catherine A. Stafford, Walking with the Spiritual but Not Religious: Spiritual Companions for a Post-Religious World

“The spiritual companion that the young contemplatives are yearning for, those wise souls who know they know nothing but know everything they need to know to be present for those who seek their wisdom. To recognize that what could be, already is—to imagine new ways of claiming our authenticity is to claim who we already are as spiritual beings.”
― Catherine A. Stafford, Walking with the Spiritual but Not Religious: Spiritual Companions for a Post-Religious World

“Bialik and Harari both agreed that science is never enough as an influencer of how people live, move, and have their being in the world.”
― Catherine A. Stafford, Walking with the Spiritual but Not Religious: Spiritual Companions for a Post-Religious World

“What that presents to us is the stunning idea that consciousness is at the center of quantum theory.12 And Kripal says that quantum physics resonates with mystic aesthetics. Quantum theory, consciousness, and mysticism in the same sentence.”
― Catherine A. Stafford, Walking with the Spiritual but Not Religious: Spiritual Companions for a Post-Religious World

“After the third question, I realized that the elder spiritual companions were only going to tell their own stories, regardless of the question.”
― Catherine A. Stafford, Walking with the Spiritual but Not Religious: Spiritual Companions for a Post-Religious World

“Inspired melancholy, a holy madness both Plato and Aristotle mused could lead to divinity.”
― Catherine A. Stafford, Walking with the Spiritual but Not Religious: Spiritual Companions for a Post-Religious World

“Spirituality is itself a pilgrimage, a quest, to explore the mysteries of life. Who am I? What is reality? What is happiness? What is consciousness?”
― Catherine A. Stafford, Walking with the Spiritual but Not Religious: Spiritual Companions for a Post-Religious World

“Spiritual Companions for a Post-religious World demonstrates how seriously spiritual guides and companions must take the spiritually independent.”
― Catherine A. Stafford, Walking with the Spiritual but Not Religious: Spiritual Companions for a Post-Religious World

“In these days of spiritual awakening and decline in church attendance Catherine and Gil’s book is an excellent resource for both spiritual seekers and faith communities searching for new ways to meeting spiritual needs. Their years of leading Wisdom’s Way Interfaith School and pilgrimages to Ireland has given them authentic background material on which to draw.”
― Catherine A. Stafford, Walking with the Spiritual but Not Religious: Spiritual Companions for a Post-Religious World