What actually is Spirituality?

Answer 1

Spirituality has nothing to do with religion. Religion is another insurance scam for the ignorant and the gullible. People for the most part are born into a religion and never get beyond it. Their parents,meaning well but not really very knowledgeable either sent their kids to the local church and sunday school because it was the thing to do. As the kid grows up he or she becomes very resistant to outside criticism of their faith because we don't want to think our parents and teachers might be wrong. That then becomes the first hurdle to becoming an adult,you've got to start thinking for yourself. Meaning just because you were born there does not mean you have to stay there. However, we become so busy with family and career and bringing home the bacon we're usually just to tired to think much
beyond it. Indeed 95% of people never get beyond this point. They spend their entire lives ignorant and gullible and seldom even dreaming there might be something better. That is just exactly where religion seeks to keep them,they want to keep you deaf dumb blind and stupid where you are so they can continue to fleece you. And you,too busy or too tired let them do it because it's easier to give someone some money and ask to be told what to do than to figure it out for ourselves. It's easier to fork over some dough than read a book or do anything that might threaten our time. We think we have bought some insurance with the man upstairs if we give some money,even though we never took it very seriously.
Spirituality, on the other hand will try to enlighten you and show you how to think for yourself. Exactly what the religious people will not do because then you might get away,then they couldn't control you.
Then when they preach hate and violence and promise you 70 virgins in heaven if you only kill some people you won't believe it. Then you have learned to think for yourself.
Now you have graduated to the top 5% of humanity who are at least open to the possibility that there might be something better. If you are smart enough to realize you need to read up on these things and study with an open mind,then everything you encounter becomes an avenue to it,to further your understanding. By now you have discovered Hinduism and Buddism and maybe you have read Plotinus and Plato and Alice Bailey and Jane Roberts and A Course In Miracles and a thousand and one other worthy authors each with their own variation on things,and you begin to discover these people are really all saying the same thing,each in their own way. They are all talking about truth,the same truth. Indeed there are as many paths as there are people but they all lead to the same place. They all lead home. No matter how diverse you were when you started out you begin to suspect we might really be all the same. Not only the same point of view but the same person. Beginning to suspect we might be playing all the parts all the time and only pretending to be different we arrive at some clarity as to what the "son" really is. He is us and when we begin to accept that is the "second coming". The Holy Spirit,long a trusted companion and guide and infallible advisor begins to be seen in a new light as our higher self. And with further clarity we realize no difference between us and we are one. And this is the Grail Quest, and we realize we have been on it all our lives,and we are the "Grail" and we have discovered ourselves and all the time we thought we knew ourselves and didn't even know who or what we were looking for. We look back and marvel at how far we've come and we see it's but a single step and all the others are still there,still blind in their cocoons of unknown search and to some of these we reach out a hand and they bite and kick and we endure and try again and seldom do they listen or even seem to care and we see ourselves in them and we know it's as it should be and we smile and go among them as the road unfolds before us.

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Answer 2

My personal relationship with my choice of diety or higher power or even naturalism . The search for understanding my purpose and position in the universal whole. The quest for knowledge and truth that will bring me closer to enlightenment on a spiritual level. The small pieces of truth that I have come to believe are valid, But I only have a very insignificant small part of the complete puzzle that is spirituality.As does everyone. The only way to grow is keep an open mind and seek others truth to see if it can be added to mine.

Answer 3

Spirituality is simply another term for having faith. God made you to be spiritual. That is, He made you to have a personal relationship with Him. The problem is that our sin has separated us from God. We are spiritually dead. God loves you. He has done for you what you could not do for yourself. He has bridged the gap between Him and you that was caused by sin. God's bridge is the cross. Jesus Christ, God's Son, died on the cross for your sins--paying the penalty that you deserve. Three days later He rose from the dead. Tonight you can begin a personal relationship with God through faith in Jesus Christ as your personal Savior. Today can be your spiritual birthday!
The Bible says, "Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" (2 Peter 3:18). If you have not already done so, we encourage you to organize your day so that you will have a special time to spend alone with God. Be sure that you do not neglect this "quiet time," for this communion with our Lord will give you strength and power to overcome Satan, to live above your circumstances, and to become a victorious Christian.

It is important that you read your Bible and meditate upon it daily. As the good seed of the Word of God is planted in the heart, watered by prayer, and cultivated through obedience, praise, and Christian service, the child of God matures spiritually, as stated by Paul in Colossians 1:10 and Ephesians 3:17-19. Growth in the life of a Christian comes as he yields his heart and life to the Savior. The Holy Spirit is then able to transform his life into the likeness of Jesus Christ. Worship and fellowship in a gospel-preaching church are also a necessary part of spiritual growth.
I will be happy to mail you a easy-to-understand Bible or any other Christian book to help you grow spiritually.

Answer 4

Spirituality is the daddy of Science. Without the imagined ideas and perception you could don't have anything to head out and scan for. The speculation comes earlier than the outcome and you want a perception in a effect for a speculation. Science can't quantify God and so it is going to regularly be confused lol. Metaphysics and spirituality are extra closly associated than any scientist could date to confess.

Answer 5

Spirituality is believing in something that cannot be proved. This is not always religion tho. It could he anything. As long as there's no proof, and you believe in it, that's spirituality.

Answer 6

The closer you get to Christ, the more you see through His eyes, that is spirituality.

Answer 7

put plain and simple it's what you choose it to be. However you want to be as far as being spiritual goes. God, or what ever makes you feel at peace. I still have not found that place myself. good luck.

Answer 8

Spirituality is your relationship with the world around you, and ultimately, with God.

Answer 9

Spirituality is the delusional belief that we are greater than the sum of our parts. We are not.

Answer 10

When a human steps away from a strictly physical life and looks toward the intangible.