I wholeheartedly agree with what Thomas Moore says here about the spiritual life.
This is how the call to spirituality comes to us. We ought to be spiritual in every aspect of our lives because our world is the spiritual one. It is what we are suited to. Thus Paul, from his profound grasp of human existence, counsels us, “To fill your mind with the visible, the ‘flesh,’ is death, but to fill your mind with the spirit is life and
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Defined this way, not only is spirituality an acceptable and desirable realm to have in our lives, it is vital in order for humans to grow, thrive, and take fullest advantage of their brain power.
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Spiritual growth basically means going beyond mass thinking, to a point where you have so much confidence in your reality that you know you can stand alone. In the process, you discover that you are the Living Spirit within—eternal, immortal, and infinite—that in fact you are limitless.
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Faith is a deeply held conviction that there is a higher meaning in life that cannot be proved by outer events.
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Being spiritual means treasuring your secret but not locking it away, seeking always to grow in soul, and acting in a way that dignifies the specialness of being human.
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To live a spiritual life is to seek to grow in love and kindness—and to persevere even when love as a perfect integration of emotion and action seems daunting or out of reach.