Please Define Spirituality

celestialvisionz said:
What does it mean to be a spiritual person?
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I think that a spiritual person is someone who uses their creativity in service of things that are of ultimate value, someone who uses their reason to identify objective values and actualize them in life. That means fighting evil: recognizing the things that can be better than they are, wherever they are found (e.g., in the self and the world), and working to make them better.
 
What does it mean to be a spiritual person?
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I think that in simple terms, a spiritual person is one who regards life as more than the material and all the appetites and inclinations that accompany the material.

As one develops in such a manner the sense of self changes to see and value things such as honor, equity, empathy, and humility.

[Quote author=Approaching Infinity]I think that a spiritual person is someone who uses their creativity in service of things that are of ultimate value.[/quote] Well put.
 
To me it means a natural process of incorporating the mental, emotional & physical parts of one's being & finding (quest/questioning) the balance of all these in direct relation to the environment. (localized or general)
Knowledge awareness, perception attention, intent all as a harmony leading to actuality. If that makes any sense. :rolleyes:
That was my long version.
I think that in simple terms, a spiritual person is one who regards life as more than the material and all the appetites and inclinations that accompany the material.

As one develops in such a manner the sense of self changes to see and value things such as honor, equity, empathy, and humility.
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I think that a spiritual person is someone who uses their creativity in service of things that are of ultimate value, someone who uses their reason to identify objective values and actualize them in life. That means fighting evil: recognizing the things that can be better than they are, wherever they are found (e.g., in the self and the world), and working to make them better.
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"My" short versions!
 
A spiritual person is a person who know themselves well enough to understand life (it doesn't have to be fully but enough to not cause to much pain to the inside person).

Ex. You stop being who you think you are and know what is really causing pain to embrace your own spirit.
 
celestialvisionz said:
What does it mean to be a spiritual person?
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It might be easier to define what it might look like as a way to know what it is. So in my opinion a spiritual person behaves in a way that shows kindness, compassion, uncomprimising honesty, joy, is open, places highest priority in seeking and coming to know truth (both personal and external), is not arrogant, does not display intellectual or spiritual superiority, is not motivated by fear or other's opinions etc. By no means is that an exhausted list - there's a multitude of qualities that might show how a spiritual person behaves in comparison to one who isn't. Overall I see it as difficult to define what a spiritual person is becuase I feel as we are very unique, how a spiritual is, would also be unique in the same manner.
 
Just my own personal take on what does it mean to be a spiritual person.

Spirituality is interaction with the creation based upon ability to see the life/universe as greater then yourself(having the awareness of existence of the higher ideas/archetypes and higher realities that are above yourself and above the material world). To be spiritual, first you must be awake. Or better yet, one can't be asleep and be spiritual at the same time.

Spiritual person is an active force in 3D reality, being in the world but not of the world. He/she has a degree of innate awareness of the nature of our universe, sensing that it is one great school that exists to teach you everything there is to be known if you just allow it by paying attention to objective reality left and right, and if you willingly participate in the 'class' with openmindedness, desire to learn, by asking questions and by looking for answers.

Spirituality is quest/search for the truth, simultaneously in yourself and in the world. It is an inner state of being activated to become the way of life. It is a difference between knowing the Path, and walking the Path(reference to Morpheus, Matrix). To be spiritual is to be a wise virgin.

'Life is religion. Life experiences reflect how one interacts with God. Those who are asleep are those of little faith in terms of their interaction with the creation. Some people think that the world exists for them to overcome or ignore or shut out. For those individuals, the world will cease. They will become exactly what they give to life. They will become merely a dream in the 'past.' People who pay strict attention to objective reality right and left, become the reality of the 'Future.'
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Cassiopaeans, 09-28-02
 
That description from Approaching infinity is really simple and beautiful - or simply beautiful:

Approaching Infinity said:
I think that a spiritual person is someone who uses their creativity in service of things that are of ultimate value, someone who uses their reason to identify objective values and actualize them in life. That means fighting evil: recognizing the things that can be better than they are, wherever they are found (e.g., in the self and the world), and working to make them better.
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Also Serendipity put it nicely:

Serendipity said:
Spirituality is interaction with the creation based upon ability to see the life/universe as greater then yourself(having the awareness of existence of the higher ideas/archetypes and higher realities that are above yourself and above the material world). To be spiritual, first you must be awake. Or better yet, one can't be asleep and be spiritual at the same time.

Spiritual person is an active force in 3D reality, being in the world but not of the world. He/she has a degree of innate awareness of the nature of our universe, sensing that it is one great school that exists to teach you everything there is to be known if you just allow it by paying attention to objective reality left and right, and if you willingly participate in the 'class' with open-mindedness, desire to learn, by asking questions and by looking for answers.

Spirituality is quest/search for the truth, simultaneously in yourself and in the world. It is an inner state of being activated to become the way of life. It is a difference between knowing the Path, and walking the Path(reference to Morpheus, Matrix). To be spiritual is to be a wise virgin.
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From today's point of my view, when a human being realizes the superiority of the spiritual world (forces of Creation) over the material one (forces of Entropy), then she/he faces the choice (which is a long process) to either apply the Knowledge (to start walking the path of a spiritual being) or turn away from it.
 
Spirituality = apple
Don't "fall" for anyone that will say you are not spiritual, or that you need to be more spiritual
you are spiritual just "BE" i.e surrender to yourself (I mean real self) , do whatever will make you content and happy when you go to bed every night, that's following your calls, that's spirituality
 
Scribblenauts said:
Spirituality = apple
Don't "fall" for anyone that will say you are not spiritual, or that you need to be more spiritual
you are spiritual just "BE"1 i.e surrender to yourself2 (I mean real self) , do whatever will make you content and happy3 when you go to bed every night, that's following your calls, that's spirituality4
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To me this sounds subjective and a little new agey.

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[*]If this is the case then are you suggesting no "Work" is needed?
[*]What if you do not know your true real self and are only acting through your false personality?
[*]Follow your bliss. Self gratification makes you spiritual?
[*]Sounds more like wishful thinking to me. OSIT
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hello to all,

My take is that 'to be spiritual' and 'spirituality' can be hard to define as there are a lot of terms rolling around it today most of them pushing to the fluffy, pleasurable, peaceful feelings that the word arouses.

Starting with the word spirit, I think it is the most logical take: to be more of the spirit (as oposed to body);

And how to know if someone is spiritual or what is spirituality in practical terms? Maybe its a characteristic that defines ones temporary mood or personality or temperament. But it also can be 'acted' out but some actions and the result of those actions can be considered as having a (more) "spiritual" origin, but only that, as these would all be guesses.

That said, 'to be more of the spirit' ideally would result in greater self-awareness encompassing a greater emotional, mental, physical awareness, searching greater objectivity in practical issues, all this would culminate in a awake spirit able to BE and DO (gurdjieff concepts) while facing any storm without 'blinking'.
 
James Henry said:
Scribblenauts said:
Spirituality = apple
Don't "fall" for anyone that will say you are not spiritual, or that you need to be more spiritual
you are spiritual just "BE"1 i.e surrender to yourself2 (I mean real self) , do whatever will make you content and happy3 when you go to bed every night, that's following your calls, that's spirituality4
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To me this sounds subjective and a little new agey.

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[*]If this is the case then are you suggesting no "Work" is needed?
[*]What if you do not know your true real self and are only acting through your false personality?
[*]Follow your bliss. Self gratification makes you spiritual?
[*]Sounds more like wishful thinking to me. OSIT
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Hi James,
Well, I thought the opposite ! :D , maybe you just need to get a little between the lines that's all

1- the Work is needed indeed, else how will you realize all of this ?.

you are spiritual just "BE", quoting Laura from Secret History
" It is through human beings that these energies are transduced and become “real”. You in the here and now - at the conjunction of all of these probabilities all vying with one another to become “real” - have no possibility of “creating” anything in this reality from “down here”, so to say. The realities - the creative potentials - are a projection from higher levels of density. You are a receiver, a transducer, a reflector of the view of which eye is viewing YOU, nothing more."
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" The option that does seem, realistically, to be open to us is to choose our alignment and prepare ourselves for the emanations that are traveling “downward” to be better received. "
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2 & 3-
surrender to yourself (I mean real self), What if you do not know your true real self and are only acting through your false personality?

To be honest, this is something I'm yet to understand, because it doesn't make any sense to me, I mean why such truth should remain hidden and not see the light ?, and to add .. the only explanation I will accept on this matter is that it will wipe out all of it and thus the purpose will never be achieved.
quoting Laura from Secret History
" The much-maligned Cassiopeia represents knowing one’s “beauty”. This seems to be a very dangerous stance to take because knowing one’s own power gets a person into hot water. This is why the alchemists described the process in such veiled and difficult terminology. To speak about these things plainly is to court all the wrath of the Matrix Control System. According to many commentators, Cassiopeia and Danae are actually one and the same just as Perseus and Andromeda can both be aspects of one being. "
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quoting Laura from Secret History
" The deeper implication of this is that a person will only be in disequilibrium if his conscious beliefs are not in conformity with his own immutable nature. In other words, a person whose intrinsic nature is aligned toward Being, will experience disequilibrium, struggle, and even illness by attempting to assume those traits that do not exist in him. In this sense, careful observation of the physical state - even the physical environment - can act as a guide as to whether or not the whole being is coming into alignment. "
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so here is a hint : follow your heart , if it is your real self, no matters what, you will have peace of mind, and if it is your false personality you'll get a bit upset, so it's a sense like conscience

and if you do things and have peace of mind but for whatever reason you don't like what you do, so it's kind of time to change it, and here's exactly where the Work gets useful


4- :D I've always wanted to ask this
I don't understand the term "wishful thinking" so can you put it simply for me please, also what OSIT means ?
thank you

I'm just slow at typing and in putting my thoughts in order as well "it took me like hours to put this down for example" , so I always try to use few words as much as possible in order not to confuse myself and others, but looks like this is not working after all :D
 
Scribblenauts said:
so here is a hint : follow your heart , if it is your real self, no matters what, you will have peace of mind, and if it is your false personality you'll get a bit upset, so it's a sense like conscience
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The devil lies in the details of how to follow one's "heart". It may be a useful to look at some threads in the cognitive science board like
Adaptive Unconscious
Thinking, Fast and Slow

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4- :D I've always wanted to ask this
I don't understand the term "wishful thinking" so can you put it simply for me please, also what OSIT means ?
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Here is the cassiopedia entry on wishful thinking . Also related is the concept of sleep and the tale of the evil magician. The psychological aspect of this is covered in practical terms in the psychology threads mentioned above.

OSIT - or so I think.
 
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