Comments on: Is spirituality a lifestyle or a quest?

By: anna

anna — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:21:53 +0000

very refreshing blog … beyond all the words, in spite of all the words … SOMETHING is speaking … our own inner voice.

we’re waking up and being surprised
to find reality’s been so disguised!

anna
annadote.com

By: nandan

nandan — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:24:23 +0000

identification actually obsruct our flowing nature of consciousness.very true .to me enjoying the moment not based on senses or not based on any fullfillment of desire gives me the complete freedom and effect of it in worldly life gives a sense of joy.this is the beautiful journey.it is diffficult for me to think spiritual life without observing YAMA ,NIYAMA in patanjali yoga or moral precept in buddism. in meditation does not gives fruitful result without it .otherwise only verbalisation or philosophy will take place instead of DARSHAN.

By: nandan

nandan — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 06:20:06 +0000

words are somteime should not be taken in literally sense as they denote cultural and religious differences rather than clearing meaning .in buddhism things r very clear like liberation from greed ,raga (all kind of worldy attachment)and dwesha(like anger ,hatred etc) and way for it .

By: GIL

GIL — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 19:17:44 +0000

To me spirituality starts when the addiction and/or identification with ego is severed…Only then can”Spirit” enter..because you are no longer in the way, obstructing the free flow of it. One cannot “be” spiritual..It is a result of letting go

By: al puglisi

al puglisi — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:39:27 +0000

I had been studying Buddhism for some while. Then a friend said to me , “Isn’t it time to practice.”
Point taken.
Spirituality is a lifestyle. though we need to accumulate the information to prepare us to live the lifestyle. A lot of people, however,(like I was doing) just continue to accumulate information rather than begin the practice.
The “quest” is the goal at the end of the lifestyle.

By: Kathy Dobson

Kathy Dobson — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:41:49 +0000

Hi Katinka,
What a beautiful blog you have…
full of wisdom..;)
I think the real key is to be able to appreciate our individuality and yet know that we are all ONE.
I’ll be back…
Thanks for the inspiration this morning!
Kathy

By: katinka - spiritual

katinka - spiritual — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:08:16 +0000

Sure.

By: David Melik

David Melik — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:12:18 +0000

I am not sure if you implied a certain answer or not, but maybe there would be more than one quest.

By: katinka - spiritual

katinka - spiritual — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:58:26 +0000

Hi Richard, I've tried defining spirituality here. I talk about mature spirituality here. And if you look at my archives you will find numerous other posts where I go into how I see spirituality and religion as well.

By: richard

richard — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:05:57 +0000

‘Love’ is important.
‘Purification’ is important.
What again are some examples of ‘spirituality?’
What is ‘spirit?’
We call a horse spirited when its activity suggests it has more than the usual energy. That to me suggests that we believe that an important part of spirit is energy or an important part of energy is spirit or that perhaps they synonymous.
We may say that that same horse has a lot of heart. Doesn’t that confuse things a bit.
The definition of spirituality seems even more difficult than that of spirit.
It would be helpful to me to know that our definitions were similar enough to make a communication significant.