Spirituality - as a word - continues to be a confusing word, often used in multi-disciplinary contexts, within various religions, faiths, non faith contexts, businesses and various corporate and global considerations. The book, published in 2013 itself is the fruit of Doctoral Research conducted over a four year period within a charity which offered multidisciplinary care to Disabled People. Therefore, the understanding of spirituality emerged as a living theory from the bottom up as it were not through a top down rationalistic theoretical approach but a merging of the two - which is PRAXIS - when theory and practice inform each other in an on-going cycle

1. The book is not
about religion,
theology or
church, but it
takes you into a
deeper
understanding
of spirituality
today.

2. The day will come when after we have mastered the winds,
the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for
God the energies of love.
Then for the second time in the history of the world, man
will have discovered fire.
Teilhard de Chardin

3. Our lives are not static and stationary. There is constant
change. We are on a journey of growth, change and hopefully
transformation, growing into who we were created to be.

4. Go out into the wild … and open your heart and mind to
the mystery, magic and majesty of the natural world.
Satish Kumar

5. “This book is the outcome of decades of spiritual
searching and itself the fruit of a pastoral practice
rooted in ecological awareness. With painful honesty
and a shining integrity Carolyn Reinhart guides us
through the steps of her spiritual praxis and discovery,
continually encouraging us by the excitement she has
experienced and shares. Many will resonate with the
obstacles she has overcome – like institutional religion
and theology’s attempts to downgrade spirituality, or at
least to fail to recognize its crucial significance; as well
as the obtuse and off-putting nature of much technical
jargon associated with theology. The vision of spirituality
is here one that can be embraced by many world
religious traditions.”
Professor Mary Grey

6. Green economics needs to be an authentic green. It cannot be the
brown of desertification and deforestation. It cannot be the red of
violence against nature and people, or the unnecessary conflicts
over natural resources—the land and water, seeds and food.
As Gandhi said, “the Earth has enough for everyone’s needs, but
not for some people’s greed.” Dr Vandana Shiva
http://www.globalresearch.ca/economy-revisited-will-green-be-the-colour-of-
money-or-life/5393406

7. "A Fruit-Bearing Spirituality” includes a
consideration of our humanity and spirituality; our spiritual
journey; transformation and growth; relationships;
integrating the personal and social; how to change; the
context/organization and the relationship of Spirituality with
Quantum Physics. Carolyn Reinhart

8. A Fruit-Bearing Spirituality connects any sort of inward journey with
an outward movement toward community and justice. Second, it uses
quantum physics to undergird the efficaciousness of spirituality.
Carolyn Reinhart

9. Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a
spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and
one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble Einstein

10. Throughout my whole life, during every minute
of it, the world has been gradually lighting
up and blazing before my eyes until it has
come to surround me, entirely lit up from
within.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
http://www.chalquist.com/terraspirituality.html

11. Our journey of change and transformation really affects the whole of our
lives: our bodies, minds and spirits; how we spend our time, money, and
resources; our friendships and relationships; our politics, sexuality, energy,
family and so on. There is not one aspect of our lives that is untouched.
Carolyn Reinhart

12. The whole earth is our home and yet we develop a sense
of place and a spiritual connection with the place where
we actually live. Satish Kumar

13. Our lives are journeys which we live alone and also share with others. Our
spirituality evolves as we choose our responses to what is happening in us and
around us each moment. It comes from inside us and is evolving constantly as we
interact with our world around us. We are in a process of living life – a process that
is not me or you, but forms and informs and makes us. Carolyn Reinhart

14. Many persons who study spirituality grow in knowledge and perhaps good feelings. Yet nothing
emerges into the world because growth is not obtained or realised. The reason is that Fruits
from the Bottom Up they have approached spirituality as though it is a theory. It has theoretical
components, but it also is a practice.

15. “Spirituality is no longer a luxury of life ... But appears as an
absolute imperative for human sanity and survival.
Spirituality is essential to all human flourishing, wherever we
live, whether in religious or secular surroundings.”
Ursula King

16. In your light I learn how to love,
In your beauty, how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest,
Where no one sees you,
But sometimes I do,
And that sight becomes this art. Rumi

17. 17
• Earth, God and humans are profoundly
interconnected.
• The environment can inspire us to
experience and feel connected with the
Divine through:
its beauty
concern for our planet and survival
© C Reinhart

18. 18
ACTION ORIENTATED SPIRITUALITY integrates:
• action and contemplation
• social and personal worlds
• outward and inward
• permeating personal and political Carolyn Reinhart
© C Reinhart

19. 19
KEY HALLMARKS of living spirituality
• people “are” what they are talking about
• Not power “over” people
• But “with” people
• Not discriminating
• Excluding no one
© C Reinhart

20. 20
SPIRITUALITY INCLUDES
• personal and social,
• ourselves, others, sacred and our world
• widest possible range human experience
• body, mind and spirit
• personal growth
• inner potential
• growing into fullness created to be
• recognising interdependence “with”
– one another and world Carolyn Reinhart
© C Reinhart

21. Reinhart‘s book provides the most comprehensive guide that I have seen to a practical
spirituality for humanity’s current situation … embodied, transformative of both individual
and community, trans-doctrinal and open to all dimensions of the cosmos … she draws
detailed guidelines for communities of enquiry striving for this transformation … analyses the
different dimensions of the emerging spiritual paradigm, drawing on science, social theory
and spiritual teaching. The hub of her conception is praxis: integrating being and doing …
theory and practice …
intertwined, informing each
other. Many insights emerge:
… oppressors and oppressed
need to change … “the real
journey takes place in the
depths of our souls …
psychological, social,
cultural, political, economic,
ecological and cosmological
”... an important book for
understanding and
engaging with
contemporary spirituality.
Chris Clarke, Formerly
Professor of Applied
Mathematics at the
University of
Southampton, UK

22. Anyone not shocked by
Quantum Theory has not
understood it.
—Neils Bohr
The day will come when
after we have mastered
the winds, the
waves, the tides and
gravity, we shall harness
for God the energies
of love. Then for the
second time in the history
of the world, man
will have discovered fire.
—Teilhard de Chardin

23. Some dimensions of spirituality are very broad. Spirituality is both
personal and social, and has to do with the uniqueness of our being.
It is non-material and is also a process in which we follow our own path,
on our own journey.
It gives us life. It is something a reflective person knows and is aware of
in varying degrees. It is different from humanitarianism. Our spirituality
informs and forms all aspects of our lives.