Someone wrote, "Spirituality is the search for the sacred and the pursuit of meaning and purpose in life."
I don't know what this means.
I am puzzled by what the word spirituality means, and using sacred to define it doesn't help me much (since I'm not real clear on what sacred means either).
I took some definitions from Webster's dictionary -
sacred
highly valued and important
holy
exalted or worthy of complete devotion
venerated as or as if sacred
spiritual
of or relating to sacred matters
spirit
an animating or vital principle held to give life to physical organisms
the immaterial intelligent or sentient part of a person
the activating or essential principle influencing a person
Using those definitions I rewrote the statement,
"Spirituality is the search for the sacred and the pursuit of meaning and purpose in life."
to be -
"Living well is to search for what is truely important, and highly valued since it provides meaning and purpose to a life."
In a circular manner I have equated "spirituality" with "living well". I'm still not sure what spirituality is, but that's fine.
What do you value? What gives your life meaning and purpose?
Given the impermanant nature of this world, how permanant are the things you have chosen to value? Do the things that give your life meaning depend on health, wealth, a job, another person? Eventually you will lose all of those things - then what gives your life meaning?
There are questions that have no answer, or at least the answer will change over time. I honestly believe it is in the search that we find meaning. We all enjoy a good mystery, life is full of them.
Happy searching.
