What is spirituality?
I recently saw a request from someone who was wondering about becoming "more spiritual", and they had come up with a list of various "shoulds" and "shouldn'ts", about what they were supposed to do to become more spiritual. It was a pretty standard list: no meat, no sex, no drugs, no modern technology, avoid conflict, practice meditation, fasting and discipline. All these things are pretty par for the course when it comes to mainstream ideas about spirituality, but is this really what it means to be "spiritual"? If it is, I'm not a "spiritual" person, nor do I want to be.
Seems to me that a whole lot of conflict occurs over the definition of words. Two different people use the same word in two different ways, and then argue over which one is "right". In some ways, both people are "right", and in some ways, neither person is "right". It's a foolish thing to argue over in the first place, we all see things a little differently. We should seek to understand each other without expecting the other person to conform to our own understandings.
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