C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

     The famous Mahayana saying goes like this: "emptiness is form, form is emptiness."  And, of course, emptiness is nothing other than form, form is nothing other than emptiness.      Here's the problem: sayings like this have become so commonplace—even more so with the advent of the internet, and even more so  with Twitter and whatnot—that they no longer have much meaning to those who hear them, or read them, all the time.      They are just words, of course.  Words that point to the real thing.  But they are not  the real thing.      For spirituality to be true, for it to be capable of transforming your life (your interior life as well as your exterior one), then you must make it your own.  You must experience the truth of the words that are spoken, and then live those words with your entire being .      Inner creativity must explode into outward creativity—the creativity of living.      But here's an important point: Although you must make this lived spirituality