Women’s Spirituality is…

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...self-affirming. It strengthens our consciousness that we are precious. It supports our process of self-discovery and helps us to accept ourselves exactly as we are.

…mutually-empowering. It helps us to know and understand our authentically female inner power and teaches us how to connect with other people, especially other women.

…all-encompassing and integral. It transcends the dichotomy between contemplation and action, male and female, sacred and profane, heaven and earth, body and soul. It seeks to integrate our relationship with ourselves, with others, with God and the planet. It opens our eyes to the reality that all is one.

…liberating. What the so-called “other” thinks or criticizes becomes more and more irrelevant.

…contemplative. We need moments of freely chosen silence to listen to the voice of God within us. This enables us to break the silence that over time has been wrongfully laid upon us.

…healing. It helps us to forgive the past and to look forward to the future. We acknowledge our true honor and holiness and affirm ourselves more and more. We discover the power within and grow in self-confidence. We let go of guilt and creativity begins to grow.

…celebrating. It is not a grim and determined striving for perfection. Rather it is a total surrender to unconditional love. It is not the control but the celebration of passion. It is feasting not fasting. It is a life full of dance, joy and color.

…an ongoing process. It is never complacent and it is never finished. It shows us the peaks and valleys but it also opens us to the quantum leaps. It reveals to us the great possibilities of life and offers us the freedom to choose intensity, expansion and growth.

…lively and body-oriented. It helps us to love our own bodies and to appreciate and value sensuality, eroticism and sexuality. It strengthens our relationship with other people, with the spiritual realm, with the cosmos and with ourselves.


I am thankful to Sister Mary John Mananyan who together with other Asian women formulated the original text from which this slightly altered version was created.


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