In your own words, how would you describe spirituality? What is it?
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Wow, I guess I'll jump in and answer this first. I enjoy doing things first.The beginning of something is always so fresh, so vast and open for exploration.
Spirituality, for me, is my method for learning myself and thus learning about all that is surrounding me. It's ironic that a "going within" teaches so much about what's on the outside. It's a way of relating..
Very simple, I know...but for me...it needs to be.
"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out." ~ Ray Bradbury
That is the beauty of it I dont think it can be defined.
I think spirituality is the ultimate
Agree to disagree
It is the ultimate community of people that can work together even though they are not under the same ideas; they still respect each other not to attack each other or act like animalz.
And some will stop eating animalz
spirituality is everything coming out of the study of spirit =) sprit developement, spirit study etc
the thing that all spiritual school come up with is always the notion of 'good' and 'bad', and about the reason we are here, and the way we have to live, i could the goal of spiritual study is to find hapyness and answer some of fundamental question about spirit and the way it 'should' be
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Spirituality is the quest to acquire the truth about every conceivable facet of the spirit.
Dive right in, my pudding bowl is always full!
Comparison with body and mind might help.
Action is the language of the body. An athletically inclined person would pay particular attention to the actions that her body performs to ensure that these are of the highest level of refinement.
Thought is the language of the mind. An intellectually inclined person would pay particular attention to the thoughts that his mind thinks to ensure their soundness and consistency.
If we accept that feeling is the language of the spirit, then a spiritually inclined person would pay particular attention to the feelings that she is experiencing to ensure that these are the most positive and intense that she is capable of. I see spirituality as living life in this way.
What I like about this definition is that it is not out there somewhere; it places spirituality firmly in the domain of ordinary daily living.
imo, it is ones own perspective of the bigger picture.
~ A Clockwork Indigo ~
i saw somewhere spirituality was about the transcendance of everything
I don't define it.
Freemason wannabe and resident skeptic.
If you don't feel disempowered, I'm not doing my job.
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lillies1978 (05-09-2010)
It's a fad.
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finding the voice within, listening and following it.
!soil first! every garden is an experiment no experiment is a failure
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eat lots of salad!
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Astara (05-08-2010), lillies1978 (05-08-2010), makwaiskwew (05-08-2010)
Spirituality, and I say that with the risk of stepping on a few "sensitive toes", is but a final spell that the Pure Ego(Consciousness) has to dismantle, study, and envelope Itself in, on Its Journey of Knowledge. Anything considered spiritual is but a result of a specific vibration of the Consciousness that learns the Pure Ego(Pure Self).
In most cases, the garb of spirituality is wrapped so tightly around the Consciousness(Pure Ego, Pure Self, Pure Mind), that it nearly suffocates it... in which case the so called "spirituality" becomes but an obstacle to the Mind. There is no such hard concept, there is none of the so perceived "spirituality" in Truth. What is witnessed as spirituality nowadays is but "hardening" of Thought that once was but a promising Bud of New Thought. Spirituality has turned doctrinal and dogmatic for reasons illogical. I say this as a simple observation and not as criticism, for "All is well within the Creator's Dream, despite appearances of this and that... No sin!".
I think I am discovering that spirituality is but the ability and grace to adapt to and embrace that which IS. Spirituality is nothing unless the participants make it so.
"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out." ~ Ray Bradbury
Correct! You and Sephish are the only ones I agree with. Most of the answers in this thread have amounted to, "Because it's spiritual!"Originally Posted by Astara
Wow, I guess I'll jump in and answer this first. I enjoy doing things first.
Spirituality, for me, is my method for learning myself and thus learning about all that is surrounding me. It's ironic that a "going within" teaches so much about what's on the outside. It's a way of relating..
Very simple, I know...but for me...it needs to be.
I'm going to drop a bomb here that will offend those of you who care about what other people say, and if so, you deserve what you get.
Spirituality is for people who are naturally creative and intelligent, but undereducated.
After spending so much time studying and profiling the people here on IS and in other places, I've come to learn a lot of about the "spiritual person." One of those things is that they rarely have any education to speak of. I'm not talking about formal schooling either. They just don't know things.
On the other hand, I haven't seen a group of more intelligent people. As in, the spiritual person has a lot of growth potential, and in many cases, are very original artists and philosophers.
It's a double edged sword, though. There isn't a single spiritual person I've met who hasn't used their spirituality to explain mundane or common things they just didn't know enough about. When confronted about it, they say the same things the churches used to say.
This flare for the creative means many of them are also dramatic people who think in extremes. It's one reason why they search for senseless things to label "spiritual" and then define their existences by them.
Most are immature, introverted, and have very little real world experience, which surprises me. They develop slower.
The biggest one is that almost all of them have a gargantuan amount of inwardly focused anger and frustration, including yours truly. They've sustained a lot of emotional trauma, repressed it, and it now rears its head as mental illness. It isn't their fault.
However you want to express it, spirituality is one thing, and one thing only: a form of study. It's the study of who you are, and even the culture you live in.
What most people consider "spiritual" is a fallacy. How do you define spirituality? Things you can't see? I can't see bacteria, or magnetics, and yet we know they're distinctly physical phenomenon.
So what is spirituality? Things we can't see that have no tangible physical effects? How do you explain luck, or synchronicity? Or evolution? How do you explain the fact we exist in the first place? Galileo didn't believe in God; not the God of the church. Many people falsely assumed he was an atheist who only ever believed in science, but in actuality, his view just contradicted the established dogma of his time. His view was that proof of science doesn't inherently disprove the existence of God, but rather proves that there is some kind of higher intelligence at work here. It's just not who you think it is.
Think about it. Study physics and you'll be amazed; the world is a miracle, and we're a miracle.
So what is spiritual phenomenon? Easy. Physical phenomenon we haven't discovered yet. Things that exist in this very physical world of ours that can't be measured with our current level of technology. As hard as it is for some people to believe, mankind is not perfect, and has a very long way to go, and so it's logical to assume there are just some things in this world that are as of yet beyond our understanding.
So what is spirituality? The new science. The new psychology. The new physics.
Edit: Typos.
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danz (05-10-2010)
aion, there are some things you could read from hermetic or gnostic schools that could help you understand some things
understanding the mind is the key to everything, even physics or mathematics
the greeks separated both things from the begining, lot if not all greek philosopher and mathematitians followed some kind of mystical initiation (from egypt ?)
mind goes far beyond physics and atoms
atoms are just a conception of the mind to represent the reality
danz (05-10-2010)
If you spent more time reading my posts and less time trying to one-up me, you'd realize everything that's wrong with what you just said.aion, there are some things you could read from hermetic or gnostic schools that could help you understand some things
understanding the mind is the key to everything, even physics or mathematics
the greeks separated both things from the begining, lot if not all greek philosopher and mathematitians followed some kind of mystical initiation (from egypt ?)
mind goes far beyond physics and atoms
atoms are just a conception of the mind to represent the reality
if you would spend less time to think i'm 'oning up' with you , you could try to expand a bit what you say
Some one mentioned transcendence. Rising above? I think its shedding off shit, conditioning of all sorts, and the fear that accompanies that conditioning. You shed the weight you get lighter and perhaps that's uplifting or rather, transcendental. How you do it doesn't matter I suppose. Whatever way makes you feel good. We come here with a spirit, automatically inclined to spirituality. There are diseased spirits (conditioned) and there are free-er ones. I guess we just aim to be as free as we can be.
i think its being able to look at someone and not judge them as to colour or creed, to ask if you can be of service to them without an agenda, knowing that what you do will brighten up there day and payment for youis sheer happiness, that you touched another soul with nothing more than kindness, but i am a dreamer who lives in a fantasy world, but ya thats what it means to me
lillies1978 (05-11-2010)
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