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We Hear You - Spiritual Journey
Our organization is committed to supporting the communities all across the state of Arkansas. In recovery, spiritual journeys are taught and / or relearned as a part of our day-to-day practice. What is a spiritual journey, you ask? A spiritual journey is "the steps to spiritual growth. There is no separation between the “spiritual part” and the rest of our program. Just as the facets of a diamond are not separate from the stone, the spiritual aspects of our program are not separate parts; they are perspectives on the whole. It’s all spiritual. Our understanding of what that means may change over time. Spiritual principles give us a language through which we develop our values and learn to live by them. The principles describe our beliefs, our actions, and the reasons we act. Our relationship to the principles we practice is creative. We learn from day to day to use them in new ways, in new combinations, to better express who we are and to help the people around us. When we understand them better, we are able to act more consistently with what we believe. As we practice spiritual principles, we discover that this doesn’t “make us spiritual” at all. Instead, we are awakening to what has been going on inside us our whole lives. Spirituality is our natural state." - (Anonymous - November 2014.)
Spirituality vs. Religion
Spirituality and religion can be hard to tell apart but there are some defined differences between the two...
Religion is a specific set of organised beliefs and practices, usually shared by a community or group.
Spirituality is more of an individual practice and has to do with having a sense of peace and purpose. It also relates to the process of developing beliefs around the meaning of life and connection with others.