Well, this guy does a good job of explaining how spirituality holds a different meaning for everyone.
spirituality is the measure of how willing we are to allow Grace—some power greater than ourselves—to enter our lives and guide us along our way. But that's just me. Get a room full of a thousand people and ask each one of them what spirituality means to him or her and the definition will start to get blurry. It isn't the same thing as asking someone to define a word like car or sun. Any consensus you might get will be vague, at best. And with vagueness comes confusion
So many people today are throwing around words and phrases such as spirituality, intention, highest potential, higher self, purpose, attraction, vibration. The list goes on and on. We can form pretty sentences like, "My intention is to raise my vibration to the level of my highest self so I can reach the goal of my highest potential and FINALLY live my purpose and attract an amazing life!" It sounds good, doesn't it? But what does it mean? Did the person who said this know what he or she was talking about? To me, undefined spiritual lingo is poetry, at best—manipulation and control, at worst.
https://www.oprah.com/inspiration/meani ... irituality
I will start off by saying what it does not mean to me
That I have to accept a higher power into my life or think that a higher power wants to subjugate me. If there is a higher power, the last thing it would want to do is try to control rats.
I have no fixed religious belief, so that definition does not apply either
I don't think spirituality has anything to do with raising your vibrational quotient
I think a better term would be to say I am a universal or I embrace the concept of universality
I do believe religious books and ancient texts (even religions that are pushed into the paganism category) contain valuable data. However, once they start talking about obeying and bowing down and praying my ears to turn deaf and I disregard anything related to that topic.
I believe we live in cycles akin to the seasons of the year, markets, cycles of joy, pain and suffering. Each cycle has something to offer and if we can go through those cycles and understand the value behind each cycle we can advance. We need to pass the tests each of these cycles offer otherwise it's groundhogs day forever.
The concept of heaven and hell is too simplistic for me. It's all or nothing and we know that life is not like that at all. You have many shades in between and it seems hardly likely that a fool that prays every day and leads a so-called good life where he denies himself from all the pleasures of life is going to heaven. And in 90% of the case, this is done out of fear. I think we are here to experience all aspects of life that don't entail harming another and that means most concepts of morality and happiness are pure rubbish.
Will continue later, but it seems the more and more I look around, the more and more I see that I should not use the label spiritualism and that universal which I have used in the past is a better label.
Alternatively, I could have had just too much MB and Shilajit (as Yodean would put it) and I have gone totally bonkers.
