Many of us feel a need for commitment. Some feel a need for spirituality. Ashram doesn't hand out pat answers to such questions and needs, but being together helps those who are searching.

At one conference where this was discussed in Ashram, a group came up with a Tentative Creed of the faith we actually hold which began like this:

We believe that the jesus story gives meaning to all life.
We therefore have an understanding of the life based on the Faith that the things of Jesus, such as:
healing the sick
feeding the hungry
giving people hints of the Love of God
are the beginning and ending of all things.

Working together as a group, those concerned were working out their own answers in a way which affected their own real lives and those of others. The rest of this 'creed' and a discussion of some of its consequences for them - including a description of the Ashram Community are in The Jesus Thing, John J Vincent, Epworth Press, 1973 ISBN 7162 0225 5.