Reclaiming your soul: A layman's perspective

We are raised and led to believe that religiosity and spirituality is something that is separate from our daily grind, and is something that can only be learned from the clergies or in churches. We thought wrong. At least for me, I gleaned some of the most profound thoughts on spirituality from people who do not wear a clerical collar but from those who breathe the same air that I am.

Here's something that you should reflect about "reclaiming your soul":

The twenty-first-century milieu puts many obstacles in the way of this kind of journey to our spiritual center. Our pragmatic orientation places a premium on technical logic. Our tendency to specialize and compartmentalize leads to dichotomize work and play, male and female, career and family, thinking and feeling, reason and spirit. We relegate spirituality to churches, temples, and mosques -for those who will attend them. We shun it at work. To change this way of thinking is far from easy, but more and more people are recognizing the costs of this separation. One of the principal findings of Mitroff and Denton's landmark study of spirituality in the workplace was that "people do not want to compartmentalize or fragment their lives. The search for meaning, purpose, wholeness, and integration is a constant, never-ending task. To confine this earch to one day a week or after hours violates people's basic sense of integrity, of being whole persons. In short, soul is not something one leaves at home." (from page 34 of Leading with Soul: An Uncommon Journey of Spirit by Bolman & Deal)