Claiming to be a spiritual person means only one of two things.
1) You have no blessed clue what you're gassing about, and you're only experiencing a hangover from drinking too much of religious fizz instead of real alcohol.
2) You're contradicting yourself and creating a seemingly valid picture to your friends that you're a "revolutionary".
Is there a difference? Maybe not.
So, you ask me, "what is Spirituality?" and "what is a spiritual person?".
Spirituality is a ruthless scientific drilling into your mind. It denies the validity of every single truth you've learned so far, and is a quest to find out what's earth and what's plastic. It has nothing to do with "believing in God" or "believing in a divinity" nor, most importantly, with having "near-death" or "other-worldly" or "talk with God or angels" "experiences"--that's the role of religion, although you must remember that we're using these phrases as our priests and religious champions and pseudo-religious "spiritualist" preachers do.
If there is a Spirituality, it ultimately is indifferent to itself. Why should a poet try to claim to be one, when their word is as good as their maturity? Paraphrasing a statement made by the great Eastern aesthete Ananda Coomaraswamy, the Indian mind sees ultimate spiritual maturity as a simultaneous acceptance and denial of itself. This is pure intoxication, not alcoholesque babble. Does a Divinity exist? Only God can answer.
"Amen."
The God i see is not the God they show me. Therefore, God as He is believed in is one big show.
Amen.
That's Spirituality minus one key element.
Do trees grow upside down? Their roots in the skies? Yet do they grow towards a barren earth, their branches refusing to grow upwards?
Amen is not the answer.
Only one thing differentiates a spiritually mature person from an Atheist. The first is matter, the second is form.
The greatest atheist is one who has already seen the highest spirituality--that bolt of lightning which lives and dies at once, and is still neither alive nor dead.
1) You have no blessed clue what you're gassing about, and you're only experiencing a hangover from drinking too much of religious fizz instead of real alcohol.
2) You're contradicting yourself and creating a seemingly valid picture to your friends that you're a "revolutionary".
Is there a difference? Maybe not.
So, you ask me, "what is Spirituality?" and "what is a spiritual person?".
Spirituality is a ruthless scientific drilling into your mind. It denies the validity of every single truth you've learned so far, and is a quest to find out what's earth and what's plastic. It has nothing to do with "believing in God" or "believing in a divinity" nor, most importantly, with having "near-death" or "other-worldly" or "talk with God or angels" "experiences"--that's the role of religion, although you must remember that we're using these phrases as our priests and religious champions and pseudo-religious "spiritualist" preachers do.
If there is a Spirituality, it ultimately is indifferent to itself. Why should a poet try to claim to be one, when their word is as good as their maturity? Paraphrasing a statement made by the great Eastern aesthete Ananda Coomaraswamy, the Indian mind sees ultimate spiritual maturity as a simultaneous acceptance and denial of itself. This is pure intoxication, not alcoholesque babble. Does a Divinity exist? Only God can answer.
"Amen."
The God i see is not the God they show me. Therefore, God as He is believed in is one big show.
Amen.
That's Spirituality minus one key element.
Do trees grow upside down? Their roots in the skies? Yet do they grow towards a barren earth, their branches refusing to grow upwards?
Amen is not the answer.
Only one thing differentiates a spiritually mature person from an Atheist. The first is matter, the second is form.
The greatest atheist is one who has already seen the highest spirituality--that bolt of lightning which lives and dies at once, and is still neither alive nor dead.
