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class="mw-redirectedfrom">(Redirected from <a href="/w/index.php?title=Spiritual&redirect=no" class="mw-redirect" title="Spiritual">Spiritual</a>)</span></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sunset_over_rocky_valley_(Unsplash).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Sunset_over_rocky_valley_%28Unsplash%29.jpg/220px-Sunset_over_rocky_valley_%28Unsplash%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Sunset_over_rocky_valley_%28Unsplash%29.jpg/330px-Sunset_over_rocky_valley_%28Unsplash%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Sunset_over_rocky_valley_%28Unsplash%29.jpg/440px-Sunset_over_rocky_valley_%28Unsplash%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5184" data-file-height="3456" /></a><figcaption>Spirituality is much wider than any particular religion, and in the larger ideas of it that are now coming on us even the greatest religion becomes no more than a broad sect or branch of the one universal religion, by which we shall understand in the future man's seeking for the eternal, the divine, the greater self, the source of unity and his attempt to arrive at some equation, some increasing approximation of the values of human life with the eternal and the divine values. ~<a href="/wiki/Sri_Aurobindo" title="Sri Aurobindo">Sri Aurobindo</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Van_Gogh_10.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Van_Gogh_10.jpg/220px-Van_Gogh_10.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="274" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Van_Gogh_10.jpg/330px-Van_Gogh_10.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Van_Gogh_10.jpg/440px-Van_Gogh_10.jpg 2x" data-file-width="592" data-file-height="737" /></a><figcaption>The reason for the corrupt politics and the greedy ambitious planning of so many of the world's leading men, can be found in the fact that the spiritually minded men and women have not assumed - as their spiritual duty and responsibility - the leadership of the people. They have left the power in the wrong hands and permitted the selfish and the undesirable to lead... Spirituality is essentially the establishing of right human relations, the promotion of goodwill, and finally the establishing of a true peace on earth... ~<a href="/wiki/Alice_Bailey" title="Alice Bailey">Alice Bailey</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cennant_Mawr,_the_Glen,_Llanberis,_Wales_LOC_3751637113.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Cennant_Mawr%2C_the_Glen%2C_Llanberis%2C_Wales_LOC_3751637113.jpg/220px-Cennant_Mawr%2C_the_Glen%2C_Llanberis%2C_Wales_LOC_3751637113.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="163" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Cennant_Mawr%2C_the_Glen%2C_Llanberis%2C_Wales_LOC_3751637113.jpg/330px-Cennant_Mawr%2C_the_Glen%2C_Llanberis%2C_Wales_LOC_3751637113.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Cennant_Mawr%2C_the_Glen%2C_Llanberis%2C_Wales_LOC_3751637113.jpg/440px-Cennant_Mawr%2C_the_Glen%2C_Llanberis%2C_Wales_LOC_3751637113.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="761" /></a><figcaption>Spirituality represents the specialization and detachment of profundity from everyday life into a disembodied, disconnected, symbolic realm that becomes compensatory for an everyday life whose immanence is banality. ~ John Landau</figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirituality" class="extiw" title="w:Spirituality">Spirituality</a></b> concerns itself with matters of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/spirit" class="extiw" title="w:spirit">spirit</a>, a concept closely tied to religious belief and faith, a transcendent reality, or one or more deities. Spiritual matters are thus those matters regarding humankind's ultimate nature and meaning, not only as material biological organisms, but as beings with a unique relationship to that which is perceived to be <a href="/wiki/Reality" title="Reality">reality</a> beyond the bodily senses, time and the material world. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes">Quotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spirituality&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Spirituality is much wider than any particular <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religion</a>, and in the larger <a href="/wiki/Ideas" title="Ideas">ideas</a> of it that are now coming on us even the <a href="/wiki/Greatest" class="mw-redirect" title="Greatest">greatest</a> religion becomes no more than a broad sect or branch of the one <a href="/wiki/Universalism" title="Universalism">universal</a> religion, by which we shall <a href="/wiki/Understand" class="mw-redirect" title="Understand">understand</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Future" title="Future">future</a> man's seeking for the <a href="/wiki/Eternal" class="mw-redirect" title="Eternal">eternal</a>, the divine, the greater <a href="/wiki/Self" title="Self">self</a>, the source of <a href="/wiki/Unity" title="Unity">unity</a> and his attempt to arrive at some equation, some increasing approximation of the <a href="/wiki/Values" class="mw-redirect" title="Values">values</a> of <a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">human</a> <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> with the eternal and the divine values. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Aurobindo" title="Sri Aurobindo">Sri Aurobindo</a> in <i>The Renaissance in India</i> (1918)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Your spirituality is what you do with the fires that burn within.</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Azania" title="Malcolm Azania">Malcolm Azania</a>, <i>The Alchemists of Kush</i> (2011), <small> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-73722-774-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-73722-774-8">ISBN 978-1-73722-774-8</a>, </small> p. 241</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The reason for the corrupt politics and the greedy ambitious planning of so many of the world's leading men, can be found in the fact that the spiritually minded men and women have not assumed - as their spiritual duty and responsibility - the leadership of the people. They have left the power in the wrong hands and permitted the selfish and the undesirable to lead...Spirituality is essentially the establishing of right human relations, the promotion of goodwill, and finally the establishing of a true peace on earth... <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alice_Bailey" title="Alice Bailey">Alice Bailey</a> in <i>The Problems of Humanity,</i> p. 168/9. (1944).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Later, when the [human] race sees its problem with clarity, it will act with wisdom, and train with care its Observers and Communicators. These will be men and women in whom the intuition has awakened at the behest of an urgent intellect; they will be people whose minds are so subordinated to the group good, and so free from all sense of <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/separate" class="extiw" title="wikt:separate">separativeness</a>, that their minds present no impediment to the contact with the world of reality and of inner truth. They will not necessarily be people who could be termed "religious" in the ordinary sense of that word, but they will be men of goodwill, of high mental calibre, with minds well stocked and equipped; they will be free from personal ambition and selfishness, animated by love of humanity, and by a desire to help the race. Such a man is a spiritual man. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alice_Bailey" title="Alice Bailey">Alice Bailey</a> in <i>A Treatise on the Seven Rays: Volume 1: Esoteric Psychology I. p. 181 (1936)</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Materialism" title="Materialism">Materialism</a> and Spirituality: There are today three major human trends: First of all, a trend towards a spiritual and free way of life; secondly, a trend towards <a href="/wiki/Intellectual" title="Intellectual">intellectual</a> unfoldment; and lastly, a potent trend towards material living and <a href="/wiki/Aggression" title="Aggression">aggression</a>. At present, the last of these innate tendencies is in the saddle, with the second, the intellectual attitude, throwing its weight upon the side of the material goals. A relatively small group is throwing the weight of human <a href="/wiki/Aspiration" title="Aspiration">aspiration</a> upon the side of the spiritual values. The war between the pairs of opposites — materialism and spirituality — is raging fiercely. Only as men turn away from material aggression and towards spiritual objectives will the world situation change, and men — motivated by <a href="/wiki/Goodwill" class="mw-redirect" title="Goodwill">goodwill</a> — force the aggressors back to their own place and release humanity from <a href="/wiki/Fear" title="Fear">fear</a> and <a href="/wiki/Force" title="Force">force</a>. We are today reaping the results of our own sowing. The recognition of the cause of the problem provides humanity with the opportunity to end it. The time has arrived in which it is possible to institute those changes in attitude which will bring an era of <a href="/wiki/Peace" title="Peace">peace</a> and goodwill, founded on right human relations.<br />These two forces — materialism and spirituality — face each other. What will be the outcome? Will men arrest the evil and initiate a period of <a href="/wiki/Understanding" title="Understanding">understanding</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cooperation" title="Cooperation">cooperation</a> and right relationship, or will they continue the process of selfish planning and of economic and militant <a href="/wiki/Competition" title="Competition">competition</a>? This question must be answered by the clear thinking of the masses and by the <a href="/wiki/Calm" class="mw-redirect" title="Calm">calm</a> and unafraid challenges of the <a href="/wiki/Democracies" class="mw-redirect" title="Democracies">democracies</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alice_A._Bailey" class="mw-redirect" title="Alice A. Bailey">Alice A. Bailey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alice_Bailey#The_Externalization_of_the_Hierarchy_(1957)" title="Alice Bailey"><i>The Externalisation Of The Hierarchy</i></a>, Section Two, The General World Picture, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lucistrust.org/online_books/the_externalisation_the_hierarchy_obook/section_two_the_general_world_picture_part5">part 5</a>, p. 183, (1957)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What is the spiritual battle? Well, the soul is a garden divided into two parts. On one half are planted thorny bushes, and on the other half flowers. We also have a water pump with two taps and two channels. The one guides the water to the thorns and the other to the flowers. I always have the choice to open one or the other tap. I leave the thorns without water and they dry up, I water the flowers and they blossom. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Porphyrios_Bairaktaris" class="mw-redirect" title="Porphyrios Bairaktaris">Porphyrios Bairaktaris</a>, <i>Precious Vessels of the Holy Spirit - The Lives and Counsels of Contemporary Elders of Greece</i>, p. 170</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The thing about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaballah" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Kaballah">Kaballah</a>, the thing about spirituality is that it's your responsibility as a spiritual person to be <a href="/wiki/Honest" class="mw-redirect" title="Honest">honest</a>. Sometimes being honest is calling somebody on their bullshit and not standing there and being passive and letting somebody self-destruct. Being spiritual doesn't mean going, `Aw, honey, aw, poor baby' . That's not being spiritual. When somebody needs a kick in the pants, you say get your shit together, asshole. If that's what the situation requires, then that's being spiritual. If laying back and saying nothing is appropriate, that's being spiritual. It's really being completely conscious of each situation, whether it's friendships, whether it's with the world. Since I'm a performer, I have a bigger responsibility to be honest for each situation. It's not in any way counter to my spirituality, au contraire. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sandra_Bernhard" title="Sandra Bernhard">Sandra Bernhard</a>, as quoted in "Off Center... Sandra Bernhard Returns with Another Edgy Mix of Culture, Comedy, Fashion and Rock 'n' Roll" by Scott Mervis, <i>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</i> (April 20, 2001), p. 25</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To that manifested Presence the name of "the Christ" may rightly be given, and it was He who lived and moved in the form of the man Jesus over the hills and plains of Palestine, teaching, healing diseases, and gathering round Him as disciples a few of the more advanced souls. The rare charm of His royal love, outpouring from Him as rays from a sun, drew round Him the suffering, the weary, and the oppressed, and the subtly tender magic of His gentle wisdom purified, ennobled, and sweetened the lives that came into contact with His own... By parable and luminous imagery He taught the uninstructed crowds who pressed around Him, and, using the powers of the free Spirit, He healed many a disease by word or touch, reinforcing the magnetic energies belonging to His pure body with the compelling force of His inner life... The teachers and rulers of His nation soon came to eye Him with jealousy and anger; His spirituality was a constant reproach to their materialism, His power a constant, though silent, exposure of their weakness. p. 136 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Annie_Besant" title="Annie Besant">Annie Besant</a> in <i>Esoteric Christianity: Or, The Lesser Mysteries</i> (1914)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The historical Christ, then, is a glorious Being belonging to the <a href="/wiki/Masters_of_Wisdom" title="Masters of Wisdom">great spiritual hierarchy</a> that guides the <a href="/wiki/Spiritual" class="mw-redirect" title="Spiritual">spiritual</a> <a href="/wiki/Evolution" title="Evolution">evolution</a> of humanity, who used for some three years the human body of the disciple Jesus; who spent the last of these three years in public teaching... who was a healer of diseases and performed other remarkable <a href="/wiki/Occult" class="mw-redirect" title="Occult">occult</a> works; who gathered round Him a small band of disciples whom He instructed in the deeper truths of the spiritual life; who drew men to Him by the singular love and tenderness and the rich <a href="/wiki/Ageless_Wisdom_teachings" title="Ageless Wisdom teachings">wisdom</a> that breathed from His Person; and who was finally put to death for blasphemy, for teaching the inherent Divinity of Himself and of all men. p.141 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Annie_Besant" title="Annie Besant">Annie Besant</a> in <i>Esoteric Christianity: Or, The Lesser Mysteries</i> (1914)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I am not afraid of being thought a sentimentalist when I stand here tonight and tell you that I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we destroy beauty, or whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have retarded some part of man's spiritual growth. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rachel_Carson" title="Rachel Carson">Rachel Carson</a> Speech (1954) In Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson (1998)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Politics" title="Politics">Politics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">Religion</a> are obsolete. The <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a> has come for <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">Science</a> and <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Spirituality</a>.</b> <ul><li>Often quoted by <a href="/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke" title="Arthur C. Clarke">Arthur C. Clarke</a> as one of his favorite remarks of <a href="/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru" title="Jawaharlal Nehru">Jawaharlal Nehru</a>, though some of his earliest citations of it, in <i>Voices from the Sky : Previews of the Coming Space Age</i> (1967), p. 154, indicate that Nehru may himself been either quoting or paraphrasing a statement of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinoba_Bhave" class="extiw" title="w:Vinoba Bhave">Vinoba Bhave</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Sofi Elizondo</b>:  How many <a href="/wiki/Senses" title="Senses">senses</a> do <a href="/wiki/Worms" title="Worms">worms</a> have?</li></ul> <dl><dd><b>Ian Gray</b>:  They have two: <a href="/wiki/Smell" class="mw-redirect" title="Smell">smell</a> and <a href="/wiki/Touch" title="Touch">touch</a>.  Why?</dd> <dd><b>Sofi Elizondo</b>:  So, they <a href="/wiki/Live" class="mw-redirect" title="Live">live</a> without any <a href="/wiki/Ability" title="Ability">ability</a> to <a href="/wiki/See" class="mw-redirect" title="See">see</a> or even <a href="/wiki/Know" class="mw-redirect" title="Know">know</a> about <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">light</a>, right?  The notion of light to them is <a href="/wiki/Unimaginable" class="mw-redirect" title="Unimaginable">unimaginable</a>.</dd> <dd><b>Ian Gray</b>:  Yeah.</dd> <dd><b>Sofi Elizondo</b>:  But we <a href="/wiki/Humans" class="mw-redirect" title="Humans">humans</a>, we <a href="/wiki/Know" class="mw-redirect" title="Know">know</a> that light <a href="/wiki/Exists" class="mw-redirect" title="Exists">exists</a>—all around them, right on top of them, they cannot sense it.  But with a little <a href="/wiki/Mutation" class="mw-redirect" title="Mutation">mutation</a>, they do.  Right?</dd> <dd><b>Ian Gray</b>:  Correct.</dd> <dd><b>Sofi Elizondo</b>:  So, Doctor Eye, perhaps some humans, <a href="/wiki/Rare" class="mw-redirect" title="Rare">rare</a> humans, have mutated to have another sense—a <a href="/wiki/Spirit" title="Spirit">spirit</a> sense—and can perceive a <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> that is right on top of us, everywhere, just like the light on these worms. <ul><li>Dr. <a href="/wiki/I_Origins#Ian_Gray" title="I Origins">Ian Gray</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Pitt" class="extiw" title="w:Michael Pitt">Michael Pitt</a>) and <a href="/wiki/I_Origins#Sofi_Elizondo" title="I Origins">Sofi Elizondo</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80strid_Berg%C3%A8s-Frisbey" class="extiw" title="w:Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey">Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey</a>) in <i><a href="/wiki/I_Origins" title="I Origins">I Origins</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/18_January" class="mw-redirect" title="18 January">18 January</a> <a href="/wiki/2014" class="mw-disambig" title="2014">2014</a>), written and directed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Cahill_(director)" class="extiw" title="w:Mike Cahill (director)">Mike Cahill</a>.</li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li>The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a>, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, <i>Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers</i> (1895), p. 562.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I would not expect <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religion</a> to be the right tool for sequencing the human <a href="/wiki/Genome" title="Genome">genome</a> and by the same token would not expect <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a> to be the means to approaching the supernatural. But on the really interesting larger questions, such as ‘Why are we here?’ or ‘Why do human beings long for spirituality?,’ I find science unsatisfactory. Many superstitions have come into existence and then faded away. Faith has not, which suggests it has reality. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Collins" title="Francis Collins">Francis Collins</a>, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102002402?q=collins&p=par">WOL</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For me, seeking spirituality had a lot to do with trying to seek <a href="/wiki/Understanding" title="Understanding">understanding</a> about my conditions—how these conditions shape me in my everyday life and how I understand them as part of a larger fight, a fight for my life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Patrisse_Cullors" title="Patrisse Cullors">Patrisse Cullors</a>, as quoted in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://religiondispatches.org/the-role-of-spirit-in-the-blacklivesmatter-movement-a-conversation-with-activist-and-artist-patrisse-cullors">The Role of Spirit in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement: A Conversation with Activist and Artist Patrisse Cullors</a></i> (June 24, 2015) by Hebah H. Farrag, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_Dispatches" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Religion Dispatches">Religion Dispatches</a></i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I know some people cringe when they here the word <i>spiritual</i>. But we're here together in the Network because we're trying to change our lives together, and to change the world into a better place. And we can do that only by raising our own <a href="/wiki/Consciousness" title="Consciousness">consciousness</a> and the consciousness of everyone else to a higher level, where we see that we are all <a href="/wiki/Connection" title="Connection">interconnected</a>, we all need each other, we all need the <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">natural world</a> and all living creatures in it, and that the <a href="/wiki/Prosperity" title="Prosperity">prosperity</a> for each of us depends on the prosperity of all. That is what spirituality is all about. So at heart, we are an <a href="/wiki/Economics" title="Economics">economic movement</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Politics" title="Politics">political movement</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Ecology" title="Ecology">ecological movement</a>, and <i>above all</i> a spiritual movement, a movement to bring ourselves and all the people to a higher consciousness. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Curl" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:John Curl">John Curl</a>, in his novel <i>The Co-Op Conspiracy</i> (2014), p. 141; excerpt from speech given by Cayatano (unofficial spokesperson for the novel's loose-knit network of worker-run businesses), addressing fellow co-op members at an emergency All-Workers meeting.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Western civilisation, with its own spirituality, has permeated all corners of the earth. My thesis is that this is the spirituality of <a href="/wiki/Money" title="Money">money</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ulrich_Duchrow" title="Ulrich Duchrow">Ulrich Duchrow</a>, "Spirituality for democracy and social cohesion versus the spirituality of money," <i>Verbum et Ecclesia</i> 35(3) <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:GoToLinkedPage/enwiki/Q25670" class="extiw" title="d:Special:GoToLinkedPage/enwiki/Q25670">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.4102%2Fve.v35i3.1332">10.4102/ve.v35i3.1332</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The growth of <a href="/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">philosophy</a> is the story of man's spiritual life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Helen_Keller" title="Helen Keller">Helen Keller</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Optimism_(Keller)" class="extiw" title="s:Optimism (Keller)">Optimism</a></i> (1903)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Whenever you wash dishes, cook, or clean, if you make no sound, this is smartness itself. A person who enters a house and makes a lot of noise is revealing a lack of spirituality; even cats and dogs do not make unnecessary sounds, and man as he naturally is does not make any either. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michio_Kushi" title="Michio Kushi">Michio Kushi</a> with <a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_Esko&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Edward Esko (page does not exist)">Edward Esko</a>, <i>Spiritual Journey</i> (1994), p. 4</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>See the person's eating and cooking, and then you can judge his or her spirituality. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michio_Kushi" title="Michio Kushi">Michio Kushi</a> with <a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_Esko&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Edward Esko (page does not exist)">Edward Esko</a>, <i>Spiritual Journey</i> (1994)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Spirituality represents the specialization and detachment of profundity from everyday life into a disembodied, disconnected, symbolic realm that becomes compensatory for an everyday life whose immanence is banality. <ul><li>John Landau, "Wildflowers: A Bouquet of Theses" (1998), in <i><a href="/wiki/Against_Civilization" title="Against Civilization">Against Civilization</a></i> (1999), p. 41</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The First <a href="/wiki/Four_Noble_Truths" title="Four Noble Truths">Truth</a> is an assertion that all manifested life is sorrow, unless man knows how to live it... the Cause of Sorrow is always desire. If a man has no desires, if he is not striving for place or power or wealth, then he is equally tranquil whether the wealth or position comes or whether it goes. He remains unruffled and serene.... Being human, he will of course wish for this or that, but always mildly and gently, so that he does not allow himself to be disturbed... <ul><li><a href="/wiki/C.W._Leadbeater" class="mw-redirect" title="C.W. Leadbeater">C.W. Leadbeater</a>, in <i>The Masters and the Path</i>, (1925), (Speaking about the <a href="/wiki/Four_Noble_Truths" title="Four Noble Truths">Four Noble Truths</a>)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Certain broad facts are always put before men in some form or other. They are explained even to savage tribes by their medicine-men, and to the rest of mankind by various religious teachers and in all kinds of scriptures. It is very true that scriptures and religions differ, but the points in which they all agree have to be accepted by a man before he can understand life sufficiently to live happily. One of these facts is the <a href="/wiki/Karma" title="Karma">eternal Law of Cause and Effect</a>. If a man lives under the delusion that he can do anything that he likes, and that the effect of his actions will never recoil upon himself, he will most certainly find that some of these actions eventually involve him in unhappiness and suffering. If, again, he does not understand that the object of his life is progress, that God’s Will for him is that he shall grow to be something better and nobler than he is now, then also he will bring unhappiness and suffering upon himself, because he will be likely to live for the lower side of life only, and that lower side of life never finally satisfies the inner man. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Webster_Leadbeater" title="Charles Webster Leadbeater">Charles Webster Leadbeater</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Masters_and_the_Path" title="The Masters and the Path"><i>The Masters and the Path</i></a> (1925) (Speaking about the <a href="/wiki/Four_Noble_Truths" title="Four Noble Truths">Four Noble Truths</a>)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is doubtful whether we may name any weak thing as typically spiritual. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alice_Meynell" title="Alice Meynell">Alice Meynell</a>, <i>John Ruskin</i> (Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1900), p. 78</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A physical man does not receive the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot get to know [them], because they are examined spiritually. However, the spiritual man examines indeed all things, but he himself is not examined by any man. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paul_of_Tarsus" title="Paul of Tarsus">Paul of Tarsus</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.watchtower.org/e/bible/1co/chapter_002.htm">1 Corinthians 2:14,15</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>These things we also speak, not with words taught by human wisdom, but with those taught by [the] spirit, as we combine spiritual [matters] with spiritual [words]. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paul_of_Tarsus" title="Paul of Tarsus">Paul of Tarsus</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.watchtower.org/e/bible/1co/chapter_002.htm">1 Corinthians 2:13</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The best type of spirituality [is] nourished by the reading of Sacred Scripture and the Church's holy Fathers and Doctors, and by everything else that can foster this awareness in the Church: systematic catechetical instruction; an active participation in the sacred liturgy, an incomparable school of spirituality, with its words, signs and prayers; fervent, silent meditation on heavenly truths; and determined effort to cultivate the prayer of contemplation. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pope_Paul_VI" title="Pope Paul VI">Pope Paul VI</a>, <i>Ecclesiam Suam</i> (1964), paragraph 38</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Everything spiritual is so individual that everyone should sense precisely with his heart what is particularly close to him and follow this path. I am so fond of a statement in the <a href="/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita" title="Bhagavad Gita">Bagavad Gita</a>, this finest pearl of the Eastern writings, that I never tire of repeating it, and so I shall quote it to you as well. "Man comes to Me by various paths, but by whatever path man comes to Me, on that path I welcome him, for all paths are Mine." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Helena_Roerich" title="Helena Roerich">Helena Roerich</a>, Letters II, (11 September 1937)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I, at any rate, acknowledge only one master, not forty-five million two-legged sheep, or two thousand million, but simply and absolutely the spirit. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Olaf_Stapledon" title="Olaf Stapledon">Olaf Stapledon</a>, <i>Sirius</i> (1944)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Any <a href="/wiki/Action" title="Action">action</a> is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing. Is <a href="/wiki/Fear" title="Fear">fear</a> preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your <a href="/wiki/Thinking" class="mw-redirect" title="Thinking">thinking</a>. Don't let the fear rise up into your <a href="/wiki/Mind" title="Mind">mind</a>. Use the power of the <a href="/wiki/Now" title="Now">Now</a>. Fear cannot prevail against it.<br /> If there is truly nothing that you can do to change your here and now, and you can't remove yourself from the situation, then accept your here and now totally by dropping all inner resistance. The <a href="/wiki/Ego" title="Ego">false, unhappy self that loves feeling miserable, resentful, or sorry for itself</a> can then no longer survive. This is called surrender. <a href="/wiki/Surrender" class="mw-redirect" title="Surrender">Surrender</a> is not weakness. There is great strength in it. Only a surrendered person has <a href="/wiki/Spiritual" class="mw-redirect" title="Spiritual">spiritual</a> power. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle" title="Eckhart Tolle">Eckhart Tolle</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Power_of_Now:_A_Guide_to_Spiritual_Enlightenment" class="mw-redirect" title="The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment">The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment</a></i> (1997) p. 56</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Many people are already aware of the difference between spirituality and religion. They realize that having a belief system, a set of thoughts that you regard as the absolute truth – does not make you spiritual no matter what the nature of those beliefs is. In fact, the more you make your thoughts (beliefs) into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle" title="Eckhart Tolle">Eckhart Tolle</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/A_New_Earth:_Awakening_to_Your_Life%E2%80%99s_Purpose" class="mw-redirect" title="A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose">A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose</a></i> (2005)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The new spirituality, the <a href="/wiki/Transformation" class="mw-redirect" title="Transformation">transformation</a> of <a href="/wiki/Consciousness" title="Consciousness">consciousness</a>, is arising to a large extent outside of the structures of the existing institutionalized religions. There were always pockets of spirituality even in mind dominated religions, although the institutionalized hierarchies felt threatened by them and often tried to suppress them. A large scale opening of spirituality outside of the religious structures is an entirely new development. In the past, this would have been inconceivable, especially in the West, the most mind dominated of all cultures, where the Christian church had a virtual franchise on spirituality. You couldn’t just stand up and give a spiritual talk or publish a spiritual book unless you were sanctioned by the church, and if you were not, they would quickly silence you. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle" title="Eckhart Tolle">Eckhart Tolle</a>, in <i>A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose</i> (2005)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Partly as a result of the spiritual teachings that have arisen outside the established religions, but also due to an influx of the ancient Eastern wisdom teachings, a growing number of followers of traditional religions are able to let go of identification with form, dogma, and rigid belief systems and discover the original depth that is hidden within their own spiritual tradition at the same time as they discover the depth within themselves. They realize that how “spiritual” you are has nothing to do with what you believe but everything to do with your state of consciousness. This, in turn, determines how you act in the world and interact with others. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle" title="Eckhart Tolle">Eckhart Tolle</a>, in <i>A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose</i> (2005)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The one who is not at home, he is wandering outside. Similarly, the one is not in the worldly life he is wandering around the religion. <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada_Bhagwan" class="extiw" title="w:Dada Bhagwan">Dada Bhagwan</a></i> in Mukherjee, Subhadeep and Bhattacharjee, Soumendra and Singha, Seema, Religious to Spiritual Tourism - An Era of Paradigm Shift in India (February 15, 2020) p. 428 Available at SSRN: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://ssrn.com/abstract=3546903">https://ssrn.com/abstract=3546903</a> or <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3546903">http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3546903</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Spiritual people must sometimes be spiritual warriors. <ul><li>Edward Mannix, Reinventing Truth (2012).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spirituality&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r3507533">@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output table.multicol>tr>td,.mw-parser-output table.multicol>tbody>tr>td{display:block!important;width:100%!important;padding:0!important}}.mw-parser-output table.multicol{border:0;border-collapse:collapse;background-color:transparent;padding:0}.mw-parser-output table.multicol>tr>td,.mw-parser-output table.multicol>tbody>tr>td{vertical-align:top}</style> <table class="multicol" style="width: 100%"> <tbody><tr> <td width="50%" align="left" valign="top"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ageless_Wisdom_teachings" title="Ageless Wisdom teachings">Ageless Wisdom teachings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Compassion" title="Compassion">Compassion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ecofeminism" title="Ecofeminism">Ecofeminism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ego" title="Ego">Ego</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enlightenment" class="mw-disambig" title="Enlightenment">Enlightenment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Faith" title="Faith">Faith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Four_Noble_Truths" title="Four Noble Truths">Four Noble Truths</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karma" title="Karma">Karma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">Love</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masters_of_Wisdom" title="Masters of Wisdom">Masters of Wisdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meditation" title="Meditation">Meditation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mysticism" title="Mysticism">Mysticism</a></li></ul> </td> <td width="50%" align="left" valign="top"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Now" title="Now">Now</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Om" title="Om">Om</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paganism" title="Paganism">Paganism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prayer" title="Prayer">Prayer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reincarnation" title="Reincarnation">Reincarnation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">Religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">Soul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spirit" title="Spirit">Spirit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spiritual_intelligence" title="Spiritual intelligence">Spiritual intelligence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theology" title="Theology">Theology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theosophy" title="Theosophy">Theosophy</a></li></ul> <p>  </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spirituality&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="noprint" style="clear: right; 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