Once a year, we are asked to bring a small amount of water from some place that is special to us. As we add this water to a communal vessel, we have an opportunity to briefly explain what this water symbolizes.
On Being Spiritual
The development of spiritual virtues – loving all of life, even the hard parts; equanimity, compassion – may be entirely a matter of getting our neurons wired a certain way, but the circuitry of spirituality differs from the circuitry of cognition and emotion, though it draws on both.