Spirituality can be defined as the desire to create a significant relationship with the Divine.  There are many different ways to do this, but all spiritual seeking begins with a first step.  The thoughts and meditations on this page are offered as various starting points for an individual’s spiritual journey.

Rabbi Nachman’s Prayer

Master of the Universe, grant me the ability to be alone.
May it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grasses,
Among all growing things,
There to be alone and enter into prayer.
There may I express all that is in my heart,
Talking with Him to whom I belong.
And may all grasses, trees and plants
Awake at my coming.
Send the power of their life into my prayer,
Making whole my heart and my speech through the life and spirit of growing things,
Made whole by their transcendent Source.
Oh!  That they wound enter my prayer!
Then would I fully open my heart in prayer, supplication and holy speech;
Then, O God, would I pour out the words of my heart before Your Presence.

Some Wisdom from The Pirket Avot  (The Ethics of the Fathers)

Rabbi Hillel said:

Do not separate yourself from the community; do not be certain of yourself until the day of your death; do not judge another until you are in the same position, and do not say, “When I have leisure I will study,” because you may never have any leisure.  — Avot:2:5

Rabbi Tarfon said:

The day is short and the task is great and the workers are sluggish and the wages are high and the Master of the house is pressing.  — Avot 2:20

Rabbi Chananya ben Teradion said:

When two people sit and words of Torah pass between them, the Shechina (God’s feminine presence that is loving and nurturing) shelters them.  — Avot 3:3