Circling Home: Exploring Spirituality from a Unitarian Universalist Perspective - Perfect for Meditation, Book Clubs & Spiritual Growth

Buddhism and Unitarian Universalism are not rocks we can cleave to. They are ways of swimming that help us feel more at home in the river. Home is a place where we are welcomed, nurtured, and enlivened. There are physical homes, community homes, and inner, spiritual homes. None are perfect. Nevertheless, there is in all of us a quiet or urgent urge to find such a space. One place where we are always welcome is the river of life itself. A patch on my son’s backpack says, “When you don’t care where you are, anywhere is home.” The problem is we don’t always like what life offers. So we might look for a boulder that seems unmoved by the currents and climb upon it to dry out. Such boulders might be beliefs about the ultimate meaning of life that can’t be verified empirically. Or disproved. But life is indifferent to our preferences. In time, the current wears down all boulders. Sooner or later, we find ourselves in the river. This collection of talks are about circling and settling in that sense of home by learning to swim, even when it’s turbulent. They were selected by the members of the Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento out of over 300 talks offered over a ten years by Doug Kraft. They cover many topic, but ultimately all are about opening to the urge to find a spiritual home within, circling around it to get to know it, and settling into life as it is.