Spirituality

Spiritualism is the understanding of the ultimate reality. You are everything, yet you are nothing. Is this 'nothingness' everything? Spiritual growth is what deepens this understanding of being and not being. The true essence of being spiritual is understanding why you are here and who you really are. Is being religious same as being spiritual? Not really. Then what does spirituality mean? Read on to enlighten yourself on the spiritual aspect of life. Also find ways to achieve spiritual growth.
  • Why People Become More Religious With Age
    There is a common belief that the older you get, the more religious you become. However, the reality depends a lot on personal choices, intensity of faith and experiences. Why one individual chooses to be a believer while another does not, depends on a multitude of factors. Let's dwell deeper into this subject and find out as to why people become more religious with age.
  • Spiritual Growth Exercises
    In this article, I am going to give you the most basic exercises that will help you grow spiritually. It is not about which religion you belong to or if you believe in God or not. Spirituality is about coming in terms with what your soul and your subconscious mind wants.
  • On Beauty
    "Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man." - (Fyodor Dostoevsky). Discover thoughts about real beauty and what it means.
  • Are You Addicted to Spirituality?
    Did you know that spiritual addiction is an actual reality and has been there for centuries? Yes, this addiction is as old as man itself and has created havoc in civilizations across the world and over generations...
  • You Don't Have to Be Religious to Be Spiritual
    Although spiritual health is one of the six components to overall well-being, this doesn't necessarily mean being religious. Spirituality and religion are actually very different in regards to well-being.
  • Importance of Spirituality for Inner Peace
    Importance of spirituality for inner peace is felt through the small yet significant things in life, such as the gift of life that we experience each and every day. The fact that we can breathe, and thrive because of the bounty that nature offers us, is something to be grateful about.
  • Social Spirituality
    Many people think of spirituality as a purely personal topic that cannot or should not be shared openly with others. On the contrary, sharing your spirituality with trusted others in a community group or at a spiritual retreat can be a deeply rewarding experience.
  • History of Private Spirituality
    In terms of the history of mankind, and particularly in the history of the west, the idea of a personal spiritual journey is fairly new. The earliest roots of this idea are found in the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century, and spiritualism as it exists today has only been around since about the 1800s.
  • What Does Spiritual Growth Mean
    Being spiritual has nothing to do with religion. It means the overall growth and development of a person. Let us understand the meaning of spiritual growth in this article.
  • Personal Spiritual Retreats
    Sometimes it is not possible to attend an organized spiritual retreat, but a well-planned personal spiritual retreat can be accomplished almost anywhere.
  • Finding and Celebrating Spirituality in the Mundane
    Spirituality has historically been the realm of religion, but modern concepts of spirituality have gained ground and been applied to the natural world.
  • Transcend Karma and Focus on the Future
    If you can let the past go, beyond the karma that holds you back, then you will be able to see your future.
  • Finding Your Place in the Universe
    One of the most powerful ways to achieve a pure state of meditation is to focus your thoughts inward, on who you are.
  • Every Morning!
    A new day has come, renewed blessings are waiting ahead and you need to remind yourself some things every morning so as to live your day to the fullest...
  • Your Promised Land
    Do you think that because you are a child of God and you know Jesus Christ, the enemy will roll the red carpet under your feet so that you would accomplish what you are destined for? Oh, no, the "Promised Land" has its share of battles before entering but with God, you are indeed the winner.
  • Purposefully Bringing Religion Into the Workplace
    Despite all the furor about religious views being expressed in the workplace, evidence exists that the presence of spirituality is actually growing in corporate America.
  • Materialism in Society
    Materialism has forced people to think about their material needs even above the God. In this article we have tried to explore the various aspects of materialism in society.
  • Spirituality Vs. Religion
    Spirituality vs. religion is a debate with many connotations. However, they both have the same end. Read on to find out more...
  • Letting Go of Attachments
    The essence of spirituality can be summed up in one term: non-clinging.
  • How to Find Inner Peace
    Are you in a very disturbed state of mind and are longing for some inner peace? Read on to know about finding inner peace.
  • Exploring Spirituality Through New Thought
    Although it has existed for more than 100 years, the New Thought movement is a term that refers to a group of beliefs that are continually changing and growing.
  • It's a Mad World
    It is uncanny how we just won't learn. Every time, the same experience, yet the stumbling continues. Does or doesn't this matter at all. Who has the time to introspect...
  • Is Development at the Cost of Sinking Humanity?
    Humanity and Morality. How do they stand against each other?
  • Addiction and Spirituality
    For clinicians and researchers studying addiction and ways to cure addiction, focusing on strengthening spirituality is becoming increasingly promising as a possible treatment.
  • Leo Tolstoy: His Spiritual Journey and Inner Struggles
    Tolstoy's introspection analysis is a good source of inspiration for all who want to learn precious and profound life lessons. He realizes the truth and the depth of Jesus Christ's teachings therefore he is determined to use them as moral in his writings.
  • Art and Spirituality: More Than Just Religious Paintings
    Art has been deeply impacted by the spirituality of man since the beginning of time.
  • The Need of Acceptance
    Being unconditionally loved and accepted is one of the conditions for humans to reach their full potential in life and to bloom to what they were created to be. Yet true acceptance comes when we realize who we are in God's plan, who God says we are.
  • 'Shrooms' Spiritual Effects Still Strong a Year Later
    A new survey shows that powerful, spiritually transforming experiences under the influence of psychedelic mushrooms still rank high a year later.
  • Spiritual Muscles
    Just as in fitness or body building, performance is achieved gradually, in time, not overnight. The same way, we can't become spiritually strong overnight. That's why we need constant training, gradually increased in difficulty so as to achieve "spiritual muscles".
  • Akedia Or The Demon of Boredom
    The lack of motivation, mental asphyxiation and exhaustion lead to a state that is in fact a spiritual illness. See how you can fight it.
  • Brian Welch’s Salvation from Himself
    Changed lives and new perspectives in life from people who we thought to be lost in drugs alcohol and all that sound good, but is it real? Yes, Korn’s lead guitarist, Brian Welch, gave up drugs and a meaningless life to embrace the Creator, Jesus Christ, Who gave him health love and hope instead.
  • Spiritual Gifts
    It is written in the various religious treatises about the various spiritual gifts that man can have but according to me spiritual gifts cannot be categorized neither are they visible in a person, they are there like the silent omnipresence of God.
  • Words of Kindness
    People around us are hungry for kindness, I mean the genuine one, not the one in the commercials; giving a word of kindness can and it eventually will make the difference in someone's life! What's more, the day you'll need that word yourself, it will return to you!
  • Fighting with Yourself
    Are we the owners of our possessions or are our material goods the ones that own ourselves? Our happiness cannot be encompassed in any amount of material belongings, the inner wealth is far more precious!
  • What is Scientology?
    Scientology, the controversial religion, has earned scores of critical reviews and a reputation as a crackpot cult, but not many people seem to know what Scientologists actually believe.
  • Lost Under The Sun
    We all look for something in this life but in the end, the cemetery is waiting for us. Can we change that? We can't but God can, He actually did. He offers life in Jesus Christ His Son.
  • Idealism and Spirituality, Part I
    What is the functional difference between an idealist and someone who is not an idealist?
  • Virtual Sin
    The virtual world is well... virtual, therefore unreal so praying a game won't hurt anyone. The character you hit in the virtual space won't feel anything, that's for sure. But, the "author" of the deed will feel it... and very soon!
  • Spiritual Housework?
    Maybe you don't have to be crazy to enjoy housework; maybe you just have to come at it a little differently.
  • Queer Spirituality: The Radical Faeries
    What or who are the Radical Faeries? A basic overview and exploration of this non-conformist group.
  • The "good guilt" and the "bad guilt"?
    When we hear the "guilt alarm beeping " we have to deal with guilt in a way or another, however, just like every good thing God gave us, guilt can also be perverted. Guilt can become an instrument in the devil’s hand and the evil one tries to keep you trapped inside, thinking that you are the worst person ever! I’ll let you read on to show you what I mean.
  • Soothing the Spirit with the Sound of Music
    Music is one of the most powerful forces for transforming all elements of humanity, whether physical, emotional, or spiritual.
  • Megachurches Set the Standard for Spiritual Practice
    Megachurches—individual faith centers that draw thousands every Sunday—may represent just a small percentage of the actual church populace, but they generally set the standard for worship.
  • Spirituality At Work Seeks Connection Between Work and Values
    The Spirituality at Work website seeks to create a link between what people do for a living and how people do when trying to live.
  • Take Time Out to Not Take the World for Granted
    In the hustle and bustle of our everyday lives we all take so many things for granted. But now and then we should stop—if even for a moment—to purposely not take things for granted.
  • Catholicism and Spirituality at Odds Throughout History
    It is easily said and demonstrated through historical text that spirituality and religion are mutually exclusive and that a single Catholic spirituality does not exist.
  • Carmelite Spirituality, the Legacy of Holy Land Hermits
    The spirituality of the Carmelite family is difficult to characterize because the rules of the order were not ordained by a founder, but rather requested by a group of hermits.
  • Benedictine Spirituality: Seeking God Above All Else
    The Benedictine life, begun and inspired by the life of St. Benedict, is wholly devoted to seeking God, and everything else is of less importance.
  • Bahai’ism Combines Many Religions to Create a New World Order
    The Baha’i religion claims to be the fulfillment of spirituality on earth, and seeks to create a new universal faith by incorporating views of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism and Hinduism.
  • Understand African Spirituality by Considering Creation
    Ifa, Kongo, Vodou, Palo Monte, Santeria and other practitioners are bound together through common ancestors who developed religions from a central understanding—although not a common story—of creation.
  • The Rainbow Serpent, Symbol of Native Australian Spirituality
    The religious beliefs and customs of indigenous Australians have been influenced through the years by a wide variety of other cultures around the world, resulting in stories handed down through generations.
  • Exploring the Connection Between Art and Spirituality
    Throughout history, art has always been deeply impacted by the spirituality of man and his expression of individual ideology.
  • Help !!
    Help is a word used to indicate agony or the need for assistance. We are empowered by heaven to help others.
  • Brilliant Failures; the Inner Journey!
    The very word 'spirituality' fundamentally means that you are not trying to be like someone else. It doesn't matter what you want to be in the world, in some way you are always trying to be like somebody or be better than somebody in whatever you may be doing.
  • Seeking Divinity
    It has often been observed that while one seeks divine strength, people generally have this misconception that they need to withdraw themselves from worldly affairs, once they approach the twilight of their age!
  • Peace and You
    There are various means of achieving peace. The feeling of a silent garden and you all by yourself; a place where there are several whiffs of air that lap by you making you feel oxygenated.
  • Life is a Bubble
    If you look up in the sky during the day, you see the sun. That becomes most dominant in your experience. In the night, if you look up, the stars become very dominant in your experience, but both the sun and the stars - and sun also happens to be a star - are very puny little things when compared to the vastness of the sky. Don't you think so?
  • Life Beyond Deals
    If you really want the best deals in life, don't try to make deals. You must be in such a way that your client should, as a businessman or a trader, fall in love with you in every way.
  • Energy - Beyond the Human Perceptions
    If you've never experienced any power beyond yourself, then you miss out one vital aspect that we all thrive on...nature..
  • Growth, the Spiritual Way
    If the need to grow is deep within you, if that is your aim, first of all you should be clear about what is there in your experience and what is not.
  • Khajuraho - Art or porn?
    Khajuraho - the spirituality, exotica, the myth and the truth.
  • Where is Heaven...!
    Religions are generally very stipulative. You must do this and do that for the privilege of entering heaven. So on goes the stipulations. The leaders of Christian churches have made rules and laws of what to do and not to do, often containing ideas Christ had never dreamt of. If you study some of these stipulations you would think that even 1 % of the people on earth will not reach heaven. But that cannot be true.
  • What is life? Can You Define it Through Science?
    The Universal question that nobody has been able to answer satisfactory. Is science really capable of defining it? Or do we have to depend on proofs given by spirituality to obtain an answer?
  • Love + Hope = Life
    Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. Is there any relation of hope with love and life?
  • You call it madness
    First love is very innocent love. We believe that our first love is going to be our life partner. Love is to give. Don't expect anything from your true love.
  • Psycho-Spiritual Development: The Fifth Stage
    In the work of healing and personal growth, we start by practicing awareness, acceptance and deepening acceptance leads to change. Our emergence into freedom depends upon the profound experience of living our purpose and learning from life.
  • Psycho-Spiritual Development: The Fourth Stage
    As individuals we desire to accrue and acquire talents and abilities to further our self-aggrandizement, but these are not the goals of psycho-spiritual practice. We are living in the era of holism and self-responsibility. You are not responsible for anyone else's inner work. Cultivate insight and understanding inside. There are two basic stages to wise practices in inner work: awakening and integrating.
  • Psycho-Spiritual Development: The Third Stage
    Love relationships require self-loyalty, relinquishing power and embracing suffering. Early conditioning and formative relationships define us in reactive relationships. All our relationships with others will refer us back to this need until we are ready to do the work of giving acceptance, forgiveness and compassion to ourselves. Where does the path of relationship lead?
  • Psycho-Spiritual Development: The First Two Stages
    How do we answer the profound question which birth and early life asks? Everyone should attend to the life-orientating task of devising a personal cosmogony. Look at the self-imposed limitations of your life; the ones that may cause you to look back when it's too late. Change is natural and, as we return to our true nature, we harmonize with the natural flow and rhythm of change and it is here that transformation takes place.
  • The Expression of Spiritual Truth: Words or Silence?
    Spirituality and transcendence are always compromised by description and definition. Words, at best, will lead only to a pale imitation of what they attempt to describe. The stronger the experience, the less the individual personality is present. Ultimately it may be that more is conveyed in silence when the world becomes alive and the veils that usually separate people from us are peeled back.
  • Sustaining Spiritual Growth
    Human life has a beginning and an end. We are born of nature and our souls are contained in the body. The body can depart this life but the soul can live forever. Therefore we may say that human life is endless.
  • My Life, My Rules !
    The article present a short picture of the requirement of self control and the law of karma, their benefits and why are they necessary to inculcate for a person in his lifestyle. I have tried to portray the positive effects of living a healthy moral life.