This article defines spiritual development as the process of restoring our spirituality. The author describes how, after much academic and professional training, he restores his spirituality through a renewed awareness of the richness he experienced in simple events of life, such as voluntary and professional community work and in poetry and stories, as well as how he came to appreciate the essence of the animist tradition epitomized by the ancient folk wisdom of Voodoo.
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