Being Human Makes it so Darn Difficult to be Spiritual
Being Spiritual – The Many Faces of Spirituality
By Cori Savenelli
The word spiritual has many concrete definitions and many faces. A common misconception about being spiritual is that defining oneself as such is contingent upon being “religious”. Being “religious” means to subscribe to particular set of laws designed to show respect and humility to a particular deity or deities who are believed to be representatives of a higher power, that is all. Spirituality recognizes all representatives of faith.
Another view of spirituality lends its origin to the media definition of “new-agers”, “hippies”, “peace-freaks”, “tree-huggers” and so forth. When some people hear the word “spiritual”, they think, ‘unstable, unrealistic, idealistic, flighty’ and so on. This opinion is most directly associated with the misunderstanding of what spirituality truly is.
To be truly spiritual means to have peace.
I’m sure we all know many religious people who are far from peaceful, and likewise, many peaceful, loving individuals who do not subscribe to any particular religion.
Most of us strive to be good people, to have faith in ourselves and in the power of love and kindness in all its forms and to be as “spiritual” as we can while still facing the trials of daily life. The reason it is difficult for many is because those of us who “try” to be spiritual are contradicting their own spiritual progress. Spirituality is not a muscle to be exercised, its a place to be reached, when we are ready. The first step is knowing what are “human” characteristics that may be impeding this process, and the “spiritual” ones to be aspired to. Consider this:
The Differences between “Human” and “Spiritual”
Human: Jealousy
Spiritual: Genuine Well Wishes for EVERYONE
Human: Judgmental
Spiritual: Understanding that we all walk a path suited to our developmental needs
Human: Lonely
Spiritual: Knowing that you are surrounded by love from all dimensions and feeling it in your soul…finding comfort when reaching out to passed loved ones, deities, angels and/or saints
Human: Angry
Spiritual: Always at peace regardless of your circumstances, having faith in your universe and your spirit that they will guide you
Human: Feeling superior to others
Spiritual: Understanding that we are all dealing with a similar field of energy in this plane and that to truly progress we must develop not our brains or our pockets, but our souls and our capacity to love
Human: Selfish
Spiritual: Selfless
Human: Wanting fame or notoriety for superficial reasons
Spiritual: Wanting to reach large numbers of people in order to help them to harness their energy and move forward
Human: Using only your head to make decisions
Spiritual: Combining your brain and your intuition using signs from the universe and God to make them
Human: Believing there is such a thing as a coincidence
Spiritual: Knowing that there is not
Human: Ignoring, not seeing or questioning signs from the universe
Spiritual: Seeing signs in everything…including why you saw this article when you did
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Most people evade the idea of spirituality for religion or atheism out of blindness and refusal to accept the reality that were far more sensory present than we realize. Sexual chemistry isnt just attraction and expectation of sex its a shared energy that is centered in spirit and the chakras electromagnetic allowance of energies from the gut heart and mind. yet even while people experience this they refuse to see these senses as part of a much deeper experience and deal with the topic by fearing it and avoiding it as unprovable. Curiously most religious people do the same. So how true is religion when it denies the very thing it proposes to worship. at least atheists arent as duplicitous.
It’s a lot like yin and yang, no? Being human and being spiritual are essentially the same thing from my perspective. Humans need a spirit, and spirituality needs humans. Otherwise why bother if life wasn’t messy, smelly, risky and deadly? That would not be life. It would be nothing.