spirituality is an all-encompassing, all pervading phenomenon. it is irrefutable, undeniable, insolvent, inevitable.

spirituality is about being first. doing second. you are first who you become. or who you choose to become. who you choose to become is a compound of the actions you have taken through a course of time. your actions, repeated without reset, become who you are. eventually you are actions become you. emphasis on eventually. lying once does not make you a liar. losing once does not make you a loser.

but we never know how to just… be. being is difficult because it is almost synonymous with being idle. it is more than that. being is the tiny brief stillness when you realize you have fallen in love. or the way you feel in a near death experience. or how you feel when you are sitting still for just 10 minutes. you will be, then.

being is found in stillness. perhaps that is why we celebrate people more once they die — we realize who they are.

being is found in deliberation. perhaps that is why intentions matter — they are tied in with who we are.

being doesn’t require work. we are not used to inaction. we are not used to intentionally engaging with inertia. we are either acting, or reacting. but being doesn’t require work as written by the sons of Korah.

being is close to God, no matter who you judge yourself as a human being.

being opens your eyes because you see your true colors. you realize you are one with the world. that you are a reflection of God and consequently of every being you encounter.

there is no alternative to being. no shortcuts either.

instead of working to be, let work become an extension of your being; stop working to be, let the being extend itself into work — St. Paul knows about this.