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Welcome to the Center for Spiritual Living in Olympia, Washington. Affiliated with United Centers for Spiritual Living, we are a non-profit organization dedicated to providing spiritual tools to transform our personal lives and help make the world a better place.

We practice an appreciation for diversity in our community, and our teachings highlight the divinity within each, and indeed in all religions. The Center for Spiritual Living promotes a way of life that honors all paths to God, and helps people to discover a personal relationship with God. When God, or the Infinite Presence, is the focus of our spirituality, other areas of our lives fall into place – we are happier, we can do more for others, be better stewards of the Earth, and live our lives to the fullest. When we develop a practice or habit of living a spiritual life, we become the peace we wish to see in the world.

There are many qualities, practices and behaviors at the Center for Spiritual Living that are life-affirming. Our values of love, appreciation, abundance, authenticity and integrity find their way into all that we do and share together. We offer Sunday services, classes, events, Sacred Circles, private counseling with our minister or practitioners as well as numerous social occasions throughout the year.

Welcome to our website. Welcome to the Center for Spiritual Living. Welcome home!

Letter from Rev. Elizabeth O’Day

If you are visiting our website for the first time or are back for the thousandth time, welcome!

How to describe for you who we and what our Center is about? We are a relatively new and growing community in Olympia, and as a result there is lots of excitement in our meetings, ideas and organizing, social gatherings and events. We jokingly say that we are disorganized religion and there is an undercurrent of truth in our laughter. For as a community we value the wisdom that is revealed in unexpected sources, and most certainly in the diverse voices of our members. It is more than a stated belief in the Divine Presence within everyone; it is a practice of honoring it – even in unlikely places.

Here is some of the nitty-gritty about who we are:

The Center for Spiritual Living, Olympia is governed by a set of bylaws and policies administered by a Council of Trustees. All our activities and events, as well as every leadership team, is staffed by volunteers. Each team of volunteers has a representative on the Council – and they are all volunteers too.

The Council does everything by consensus, not by a majority vote – but by a full consensus usually preceded by a full discussion. The Council guides the business of the Center with care, wit, willingness to serve and a deep love for the spiritual principles of our teachings. Great stewardship through the Council has resulted in a financial strength that allowed the community to hire a full time minister last year – and that’s me!

On some of our other pages here you might read about our history as a community, as a worldwide philosophical movement, and as a religious non-profit organization. You can also read in more detail about what a Practitioner is, and read the profiles of the Practitioners at our Center. As our community grows, undoubtedly this website will grow as well with more information offered on who we are.

Today is filled with good! Regardless of what happened yesterday or may happen tomorrow, right now recognize the essential presence of Spirit. It is in the silence that holds every sound, and in the gap between our thoughts – it is the background to entire foreground, indeed – Spirit is the ground of life. That presence fills me with peace, as I allow this moment to be enough, and as I affirm that everything I need is right here, in this moment.

May you know that presence of Spirit in your life,

Rev. Elizabeth “Libby” O’Day