Anonyhub and I are both disgruntled Protestant Christians. So disgruntled that we don't identify ourselves as such anymore. But we both want to continue to pursue god in our own time and way and want to give Anonybabe a spiritual lexicon so she has the vocabulary and framework to decide how and whether she wants to do the same.
Here's a quote from Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, who is one of its interviewees, about everyday activities she thinks of as spiritual exercises:
“…We don’t usually think of reading as a spiritual exercise, but I think it is because in order to hear a story you have to quiet yourself. And you have to empathize with the characters in the story, and isn’t empathy part of the spiritual life? Isn’t quietude part of the spiritual life? And you also discover in story that you don’t have control. You might like the characters to do one thing and another. You might wish they would make one decision or another, but you can’t control the situation. And part of the spiritual life is learning that we are not always in control. And also if we are also truly listening, then all the details matter. It matters what the color of her hair is, or what he’s wearing, or what the time of day is, and paying attention to the details of life is part of a spiritual life.”
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