There’s a saying I keep on my desk: “If you do your 10 percent 100 percent [of the time], God will do the 90 percent and you’ll live in grace.” Whatever you want to call that higher meaning, without faith in an existence outside ourselves–even if it is simply a belief in the common good within people–life is much more difficult than it has to be. After all, trust is an essential ingredient to fearlessness: having faith that our lives have meaning, and finding a way to connect to it, even if we’re not always able to see it.

How does spirituality affect your life? If you don’t have a spiritual practice, do you find solace in other places, such as nature? Talk about this.

–Arianna Huffington