The Service Road to Spirituality

When alcohol and ignorance reigned supreme in my life, I had some very vivid prejudices concerning spirituality and the people who, I believed, feigned a life of it. I imagined men clad as prophets and women adorned with halos of flowers. These simpletons ate vegetable mush, hugged trees, and were "high on life." They didn't work. Work would interfere with their time spent in the lotus position, trying to levitate while attuning themselves to the powers of the universe. I believed that their naivety was matched only by their imbecility, that they were utterly devoid of sound reasoning and logic. I also thought that spirituality and religion were the same thing.