Spirituality is experiencing who you are beyond small mental definitions, rituals, relationships. For this reason it renders traditional religion impotent because religion can only reach as far as the mind can go
Spirituality is experiencing who you are beyond small mental definitions, rituals, relationships. For this reason it renders traditional religion impotent because religion can only reach as far as the mind can go
Spirituality has often been neglected by both the non-religious—because they group it, unfairly, into the “not for me” pile as part of their rejection of religion—and by the religious—because they rely on their religion for spiritual growth, and religions aren’t typically focused on the types of spirituality we’ve been discussing.
Tim Urban • How Religion Got in the Way — Wait But Why
Spirituality, for me, is about tapping into the deep sources of our own power and love, and the lifelong challenge of bringing them together in practice.
The RSA • The Spiritual and the Political: Beyond Russell Brand
What the sages mean is that if one sees through the symbolism of the ritual to its meaning and identifies with that inner core of meaning through spiritual union, rites become superfluous.
Eknath Easwaran • The Upanishads (Easwaran's Classics of Indian Spirituality Book 2)
people can assert that they are spiritual but not religious only because the what has been replaced completely by the how, to a level that would make even Calvin or Luther blush.10