Father Ron Rolheiser writing about spirituality refers to St. John of the Cross who spoke of "the urgent longings, eros, that are the starting point of the spiritual life and, in his view, spirituality, essentially defined, is how we handle that eros." He suggests that we cannot escape that driving force of our lives, thus our spirituality.
"We all have a spirituality whether we want one or not, whether we are religious or not. spirituality is more about whether or not we can sleep at night than about whether or not we go to church. It is about being integrated or falling apart, about being in a community or being lonely, about being in harmony with Mother Earth or being alienated from her. Irrespective of whether or notwe let ourselves be consciously shaped by an explicit idea, we act in ways that leave us eaither healthy or unhealthy, loving, or bitter. What shapes our actions is our spirituality."
Ronald Rolheiser, The Holy Longing (New York: Doubleday,1999), p.7.
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