聽神談【為何「政治」與「靈性」有關?】
「靈性」即那「肯定生命」(life affirming)的東西。
因此,將靈性注入你們的政治裡,會使得你們所有的政治活動,
以及所有的政治決定是認同肯定生命的。
的確,這就是你們以「政治」在試圖想做到的。
那就是我為何說,你們的政治觀點是你們展現出的靈性 ( 與神對話一再重複:人們對健康的觀點、對教育的觀點、對經濟、宗教、道德、生態 … 等觀點,即是人們所展現出的靈性。 ) 。
你們創造出政治的唯一理由是,製造一個體系,
而藉由它可以和諧、快樂、和平地生活的體系。
那即是說,一個生命本身可藉之被認同肯定的體系。
摘自《與神為友》第18章
If spirituality is really another word for life, then that which is spiritual is life affirming. To inject spirituality into your politics, therefore, would be to make all political activities and all political decisions life affirming.
Indeed, this is what you are trying to do with your politics. That is why I have said that your political viewpoint is your spirituality, demonstrated.
The only reason you have created politics is to produce a system by which life may be lived harmoniously, happily, peacefully. That is, a system by which life itself may be affirmed.