5-Day Pathway
Enliven Your Spirit
Enliven your spirit with grateful living practices that will grow your spiritual toolbox.
The word spiritual comes from spiritus, meaning the very breath that enables life. Our founder, Br. David Steindl-Rast, defines it like this, “To be spiritual means to be fully alive, and that is what every human being wants, not only believers.”
Living gratefully is a spiritual practice that awakens such aliveness. It equips us with essential tools to navigate difficulties while simultaneously heightening the joys and bringing new vibrancy to life’s gifts. And when you make it your way of being, the quality of your daily life is infused with benefits, including an enhanced perspective, greater meaning, and a deeper sense of purpose.
Whether you’re rooted in a religious tradition, think of yourself as “spiritual but not religious,” or are simply longing for a more meaningful path through life, Enliven Your Spirit promises inspirational resources and daily practices for feeling more alive, present, and fulfilled.
Join us to discover grateful living practices that will grow and nourish your spiritual life in tangible ways.
This 5-day, self-paced journey offers:
Tools to help you define what spirituality means to you
Grateful living practices to build and enrich your spiritual life
Inspiration and strategies for becoming more fully alive
Poetry, video, essays, and music to enhance your learning
Research highlighting the importance of gratefulness and having a spiritual practice for overall well-being
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Pathway Overview
Delivered as a 5-day series of emails, our Pathways provide guidance, inspiration, and practices to help you cultivate a more grateful life. They are self-paced and yours to keep. Each day includes an introduction, inspiring resources, daily practice, reflection prompts, and supporting research.
Spirituality is not touchy feely, and it is not some lofty place accessed with a secret key. It is a vibrant aliveness in the here and now — an awareness of both what is and what you can’t fully know or comprehend. It is an opening of the heart, mind, and body to the fullness of life.
While spirituality often focuses on awakening to the intangible, it is rooted in the body. When you attune to your physical senses and allow yourself to be wildly grateful for them, you become more present to the world around you and open the portal to spiritual aliveness.
Spirituality depends not on certainty but on a willingness to explore the ineffable, an openness to mystery. Living gratefully is an invitation to meet the uncertainty and surprise of life with curiosity and wonder — to allow yourself to be grabbed by life. This is what it means to be a mystic, and it is a way of being that is available to all who seek it.
Claiming your full aliveness depends on making time and space for silence and stillness. It is through intentional reflection and quiet that you are able to integrate the experiences of body, mind, and heart. And it is the only way to truly listen — to your own heart, to others, and to what life is asking of you.
As a spiritual practice, living gratefully is not passive. It has essential roots in a deep internal life, but it is completed through action. With senses attuned, your inner mystic awakened, and the wholeness of your being nurtured through stillness, you are now ready and called to tend what you see as hurting and broken in the world around you.