Essays on Spirituality

Abstract It is not uncommon to assess a person’s health and well-being only in the physical, mental or pharmacological sense.  Indeed, it can be observed that once a person falls ill, his humanity is narrowed down into a case file as if a simple folder with notes on his physical and mental health is enough…

Benjamin Franklin may have been an early follower of incarnational spirituality. He was quoted as saying “God helps those who help themselves,” in a 1757 edition of the Poor Richard Almanac. Incarnational spirituality is a faith based way of embracing life and extending ones own power toward the work and goals of God. Merriam-Webster dictionary…

Lasallian Spirituality & Laity St. John Baptist de La Salle was born in Reims, France on April 30th, 1651. “At 16, St. John Baptist de La Salle was named Canon of the Reims Cathedral, a position of great honor and financial benefit, and one that placed him on a course for high ecclesiastical power” (Christian…

The significance and significance of the Dreaming is cardinal to Aboriginal spiritualty. Each Aboriginal group is connected with the Dreaming and is cognizant its alone individuality is derived from it. Aborigines today, continue to emerge from the Dreaming, yet they are still intensely connected with it till this twenty-four hours. The Dreaming includes all facets…

Examining addiction, we’re used to looking at the mental, emotional and physical factors of addiction, the correlations between addiction and our mental health, our emotional wellbeing and the physical effects. What many of us fail to realize is that addiction is just as much a spiritual illness as anything else. Looking at the spiritual side…

Indigenous people are described as “descendants of the original inhabitants of lands now controlled by political systems in which they have little influence” (Fisher, 38). Despite the liberation of thoughts and cultural diversity, many indigenous people still maintain a sacred way of life that is distinctively unique from all other religion. These enduring ways of…

  At the core of Buddhist teachings are the Four Noble Truths.  He taught that life is suffering; all suffering is caused by ignorance of the nature of reality; suffering can be ended.  The path to the suppression of suffering is the Noble Eightfold Path, which consists of right views, right intention, right speech, right…

Watson calls caring the ethical principle or standard by which curing interventions are measured (Alligood, 2006). Watson’s caring theory evolves in a global state no longer limited to facility settings. Watson’s theory is the development of a caring fluid experience expanding from the person to the community onward to society. Her six Caritas process uses…

Inspiring personality was well known both in India and in America during the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth. The unknown monk of India suddenly leapt into fame at the Parliament of Religions held in Chicago in 1893, at which he represented Hinduism. His vast knowledge of Eastern…

all things ceased; I went out from myself,John of the Cross is one of the acknowledged masters of mystical theology. It is thought among present day theologians that there is no other writer who has had a greater influence on Catholic spirituality than John of the Cross. He is a canonized saint of the Catholic…