Exploration & Commitment 1. What is spirituality? Spirituality
is a complete science that entails a comprehensive study of the
intrinsic nature of the soul and its relationship both to the
external world and to Universal Consciousness. When this science
is not coupled with contemplative or meditative techniques for
attaining the actual experience of higher reality, it is
philosophy or metaphysics. When it is based on faith alone and
is accompanied by superstition, dogma, customs, and cultural
activities, it is religion. When it is accompanied by practices,
which, although difficult to grasp intellectually, have the
power to unveil subtle and often indescribable realms of inner
experience, it is mysticism. Only when this science rests firmly
on a philosophy of life, incorporates ethical and moral values
that are indispensable to health and well-being, and at the same
time provides a workable system of self-training leading to
self-transformation, can it correctly be called spirituality.
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