Is your spiritual path the most important journey you will ever take?

Jeff Valdivia
10 min readAug 27, 2019
Photo by Mohamed Nohassi on Unsplash

Spirituality is a brave search for the truth about existence, fearlessly peering into the mysterious nature of life.

~Elizabeth Lesser

In quiet moments, when there is nothing but you and your thoughts, have you ever felt like something is missing in your life? Like something is wrong?

Except, you can’t imagine how to solve it. Not your relationships, partner, family, job, money, travel — nothing, it seems in these moments, can fill that particular void.

You are at a loss to explain what exactly you need.

Then, as quickly as they appear, these moments are gone. You are sucked back into your life, pursuing all the things you know deep down won’t solve the problem. But, at least for the time being, you can convince yourself that what you are pursuing is good enough.

Moments like these aren’t rare for humans. If you have enough of them, you might be drawn to a religion or something else you might call spiritual.

We’re drawn to these things because they can offer something that no other aspect of our lives can — a regular reminder that there is something bigger and more important than us.

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Jeff Valdivia

Following my curiosity and hoping it will lead me to wisdom. I write about psychology, meditation, self-development, and spirituality.