I want to reproduce a beautiful article on spirituality by Jane Roder today.

Spirituality - The Inward Journey Of The Self

  • It’s self-love and feeding your inner flame, your deepest desires.
  • It’s making conscious choices that are in direct alignment with your deepest desires.
  • It’s being open to the joy that life has to offer.
  • It’s honouring yourself, setting personal boundaries, and being prepared to say no sometimes.
  • It’s not worrying about what other people think of you because you feel secure within yourself.
  • It’s becoming a more authentic person and taking off your personality mask.
  • It involves taking responsibility for developing an individual code of morals & values and living by these values.
  • It’s taking responsibility for the results you are getting and creating in your life
  • It’s personal honesty at any cost and getting real
  • It’s seeing adverse and painful situations as an opportunity for personal growth.
  • It’s coming to terms with death and seeing it as natural as birth.
  • It’s knowing that life is always changing that we cannot control anything €œ that nothing is guaranteed or certain.
  • It’s knowing what drives you.
  • It’s recognizing what pain from the past is still affecting your life today and what needs to be healed within you.
  • It’s knowing who you truly love, and what you are truly passionate about.
  • It’s knowing who and what you would die for.
  • It’s knowing what you would give up the Porsche and the big house for.
  • It’s about truly feeling the universal energy at work and feeling the oneness and connection to all people and all living things.
  • It’s an appreciation of the healing properties of nature.
  • It is about love for all people, honesty, integrity, trust, creativity, compassion, commitment, fun, forgiveness, joy, self-love, and all the higher ideals in life that give us a sense of meaning and purpose.
  • It’s becoming more enlightened on a heart and soul level.
  • It’s getting out of the head space (of musts, shoulds and have to’s).
  • It’s being able to sit still with yourself in complete silence for a period of time to find the wise answers within.
  • It’s getting the damaged adult part of yourself out of the way, and returning to the unconditional love and joy of the child state, so you can make a difference to your own life and other people’s lives.
  • It’s about the protection and development of the soul, and the lessons we need to learn in this lifetime for us to evolve to a higher level of consciousness - to become more compassionate, loving and forgiving (to get in touch with our spiritual self).
  • It is being aware that all the great spiritual masters taught the same messages€œ these being love of self and others, honesty, forgiveness, joy, lack of judgment, sharing, faith, gratitude etc.
  • It’s is being constantly conscious that our words and actions affect every individual we interact with, in a positive or negative way €œ that these individuals then go out and affect others who also affect others.

Knowing this truth we realize we have an individual responsibility to the universe. With this awareness we realize we have the capacity to change the world when we continually empower others in our day to day lives.

Jesus said … The kingdom of god lies within

Buddha said … The greatest battle in life is the one with ourselves

We need to experience quiet and clear space in the mind to tap into our spiritual nature. Meditation, self-help books, courses, and being alone with nature are very powerful for this purpose.

We do not necessarily need to belong to a church or a religious group to access the power of spirituality. The power is within us.

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3 Comments

  1. Subhojit Dasgupta said,

    September 1st, 2006, 9:46 pm

    It could also referred as;

    Spirit + Ability = Spirituality :-)

    Or our “ability or abilities” guided by our Spirit :-)

    Just my two cents lol

  2. Priya Florence Shah said,

    September 4th, 2006, 11:28 am

    Nice. Creative interpretation, Subhojit :-)

  3. Tez said,

    September 6th, 2006, 12:34 am

    Well said. We too often look for spiritual growth from our world without instead of realising that it lies within.

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