Becoming Spiritual

[Carol]

:) Meaning-centered people want to better themselves and the world. They believe that it is better to give than to receive and that it is better to add to the world than to take away from it. They monitor their sense of personal entitlement, the idea that the world or someone—an organization, their family, a person—owes them something. They realize that the gift of life and the gift of recovery has been given to them and that it is now their responsibility to accept and use this gift.

This attitude demands that the recovering person make a continuous self-examination, taking inventory of himself or herself in relation to spiritual principles on an ongoing basis. Meaning-centered people work to develop conscious contact with these principles. Eventually, these spiritual principles become part of their being. In time, the spirit of these principles speaks directly to the meaning centered person, in the form of a vital conscience. Vital conscience is the conscious contact of a Higher Power or Higher Principles. Finally, meaning-centered people know that to develop their spirit fully they must go out into the world. It is here they must exercise their spiritual principles. It is here they come alive.

[easternbrain]

You can never force a person to be spiritual. A person can only be spiritual when he 'awakens'. When an inner desire rises then only a person can be spiritual in the right sense.

What do you guys say?

[hazephase]

The road is long and hard . I have been walking on this road for many years and I can tell you I have fallen many times and I still do fall but I keep getting up and walking .

[attagirl]

That is correct you can never force a person and you should never try to do that either. You should offer support and spiritual guidance when you can and invite the person to read for themselves and to pray about it. The answer will come to them.

[jr_sci]

A person who has understood the real value of life is awakened. This gives rise to spirituality in ones heart.

[Ronaldo]

I accept with jr_sci. You are cent percent right man. You need to understand what you are and what you should do. You must be rational in you thinking.

[GHill]

There are many different vessels and tools to draw spiritual feelings and connections into the world. All of these tools are found within us. We have a brain and a heart and other more visceral parts to our body. We should know that the deep oneness that flows and envelops everything manifests itself within ourselves and out side ourselves using our various tools that have been enshrined within.

For example the heart is the seat of our desires and emotions. We can uses these desires to expand oneness in the world or we can be selfish and take from the world.

Our brain we can submit and meditate on the oneness or we can trip our selves up with false notions of what is important.

How does this relate to addiction? I have found for myself that when I contemplate and meditate on the fact the core of all things is one and that there is only one, I begin to sense and feel security. I know I am an extension of this oneness and my role on this earth is to expand the knowledg of this oneness by doing doing good. Addiction is an abyss. It is mental slavery, it is an ability to nullify oneself in front of the oneness, which is the true reality.

[suhas]

Spirituality, in a narrow sense, concerns itself with matters of the spirit, a concept closely tied to religious belief and faith, a transcendent reality, and one or more deities. Spiritual matters are thus those matters regarding humankind's ultimate nature and purpose, not only as material biological organisms, but as beings with a unique relationship to that which is perceived to be beyond both time and the material world.

As such, the spiritual is traditionally contrasted with the material, the temporal and the worldly. A perceived sense of connection forms a central defining characteristic of spirituality — connection to a metaphysical reality greater than oneself, which may include an emotional experience of religious awe and reverence, or such states as satori or Nirvana. Equally importantly, spirituality relates to matters of sanity and of psychological health. Spirituality is the personal, subjective dimension of religion, particularly that which pertains to liberation or salvation (see also mysticism)

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[Swastik]

Becoming spiritual is not in your hands. You cannot force yourself or other to be spiritual. It depends on faith, time and belief.