"The Free Man's Worship" by Bertrand Russell

Yesterday I spent some time thinking about writing in general, and specifically, how writing in this blog has opened up a part of me that was closed for a long time. When I was in school, writing and reading deeply were just part of who I was. After graduation, I had so much else going on--family, taking care of the house, working, actually doing things!--that I really didn't write as much as I should have. I still read, but casually, without much thought about how that reading was directing my life.

Writing a blog has reopened that corner of my intellect, allowing me to explore once again issues that I hadn't touched for some time. One of these recurring themes is spirituality. A comment on an earlier post reminded me that I haven't yet posted on my own religious and spiritual beliefs, or at least the development of those beliefs. This is a subject that with every passing year becomes more important to me....

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