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For me, spirituality does not necessarily equate to religiosity. A religious person can also be spiritual, but a spiritual person does not have to be religious. A religious perspective is a self-sufficient belief system containing only acceptable values and meanings within it. It is a belief system that has boundaries around it, since the world of the subconscious mind is excluded from it.
A spiritual perspective can be more open and flexible. I view spirituality as the attempt to live in harmony with life. This view entails the necessity to aim for harmony in all of one’s personal relationships and situations.
One main idea behind this definition of spirituality was to avoid two common attitudes to spirituality :
a). The attitude that spirituality is only what happens during a quiet time, when meditation or any other attunement method is practised. For example, the person thinks that spirituality means having visions or emotional highs.
b). The attitude that the world of physical reality is a disaster zone and the person wants to use spiritual practices to escape from it.
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