Spirituality doesn't look like sitting down and meditating.

Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way

and talking kindly to the people in the family,

even though you've had a long day,

or even saying to them, listen, I've had such a long day,

but it would be really wonderful if I could just fold these.

I'd really love folding these towels quietly if you all are ready to go to bed without me,

or whatever it is.

People often say to me, I have so many things that take up my day.

I don't have time to take up a spiritual practice.

And the thing about being a parent doesn't take extra time. It's enfolded into the act

of parenting. You fold the towels in a sweet way. Doesn't take extra time.

This is becoming wise, an inquiry into the mystery and the art of living.

I'm Krista Tippett.

Sylvia Borstein was one of those young Jewish seekers of the 1960s and 1970s who helped bring Buddhism to mainstream culture in the West.

And she's another 21st century hybrid spiritual being.

Over the years, she's reintegrated Jewish teachings and rituals in an enlivening organic

interplay with Buddhist teachings and practice.

I grew up in a post-depression household.

Both my parents had jobs, and I'm an only child.

I lived with my two parents and my grandmother, who was widowed, my father's mother.

And my parents went off to work, so my grandmother did a great deal of the mothering.

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