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You both demonstrate a perfect truth about spirituality: It doesn't have to come as a rare bolt of insight or a practice that takes your mind to another place. Spirituality can be found in the mundane things of every day. This morning I stepped outside into the cold and heard a crow. That was spiritual for me.
Years ago I learned that the days go better when I take a moment each morning to look out the window regardless of weather, take a few deep breaths, and be thankful for the day, whatever it may bring.
Then I have that first wonderful cup of coffee.
I'll try to remember to toast you tonight at wine-time, trobesmom.
lol, I always go out on the hottest and coldest days of the year (close as I can get anyway) just to feel it.
The universe experiencing itself, knowing it is experiencing itself as human.
You both demonstrate a perfect truth about spirituality: It doesn't have to come as a rare bolt of insight or a practice that takes your mind to another place. Spirituality can be found in the mundane things of every day. This morning I stepped outside into the cold and heard a crow. That was spiritual for me.
Years ago I learned that the days go better when I take a moment each morning to look out the window regardless of weather, take a few deep breaths, and be thankful for the day, whatever it may bring.
Then I have that first wonderful cup of coffee.
I'll try to remember to toast you tonight at wine-time, trobesmom.
It was during my rigorous intellectual efforts to explain my experience that it eventually became obvious that the God of us all would not limit our ability to know Him based on intellect or anything else. Each of us has the ability to sense and bask in His presence if we are sincerely open to it without any and all preconditions, expectations, fears, or other human nonsense obstructing it.
How could that be since our character describes and reflects exactly who and what we are.
Your character is contained within you, conditioned by your body and mind, and dies when you do.
Your spirit is unconditional, it fills the entire space and beyond, and is eternal
Your character is contained within you, conditioned by your body and mind, and dies when you do.
Your spirit is unconditional, it fills the entire space and beyond, and is eternal
When you say "entire space", do you mean Space as in the entire Universe.
Also, what leads you to these conclusion which, as you must already know, are "out there"?
Your character is contained within you, conditioned by your body and mind, and dies when you do.
Your spirit is unconditional, it fills the entire space and beyond, and is eternal
Only the recordings of the creation of your quantum Self are in the brain. The death of the recordings has no effect on the actual Self residing within the spacetime field itself.
Those are all satisfying events, but how do they correlate to a "spirit"?
Good question that also crossed my mind...
Why call it spirituality in the first place when in so many cases we're simply describing that feeling "it's good to be alive?" How many "highs" can one experience that fall into this category? From the good cup of morning java to watching a glorious sunset. When does the satisfying event, the ultra good feeling become spiritual?
I think it depends on what a person wants to believe is the source of such a feeling, of "connectedness." Oneness. I'm not inclined to call it spirituality, because as you explain, spirituality is something else.
The dictionary definition is as follows:
Spirituality: the quality of being concerned with the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things.
I suppose it is because I'm not concerned with the human spirit or soul that keeps me from describing my experiences along these lines as spiritual.
When you say "entire space", do you mean Space as in the entire Universe.
Also, what leads you to these conclusion which, as you must already know, are "out there"?
As i said if one is qualified for spirituality such questions will have no meaning.
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