22nd May 2015
Defining spirituality.
How does one define spirituality? How can you see if someone is spiritual or not? What makes a person spiritual?
Seemingly difficult questions.
Spirituality has been used loosely to mean many things. There is no single, widely-agreed definition for the concept, and the term may be applied to a wide variety of practices. (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirituality)
But what you are asking is about the state of a person's evolution, even the purity of their soul.
That kind of spirituality cannot be measured by any of your physical machines because it does not have a physical dimension. It is intangible to the physical, but pervades everything. You cannot measure it by whether a person is vegetarian, humanitarian, or by any of the behaviour they display. It makes no difference to how much they have read, and what they have knowledge of, or whether they are a nice person. Wealth or poverty, it makes no difference. How much someone gives or takes. Whether they meditate everyday or whether they are a leader in a religion. None of that makes a person spiritual. It is all external manifestation of behaviour, not spirituality. You are not in a position to know what their purpose is. People have been misled by spiritual leaders before, and will be again. Many have also learned things of great value from those with no apparent education.
You are all connected to source and to each other. You will see the same amount of spiritual awareness in another as you have of yourself. By judging another, you judge yourself. If you perceive someone as 'not spiritual' in that moment, neither are you.... If you look at someone else and see that their spiritual awareness is greater than yours, yours will be great in that moment. Not one of you has any more or less value than another, from the billionare to the beggar in the street. You are all giving something to each other and you are all receiving from each other. But both the giving and the receiving are according to your level of awareness and judgement, your level of connection.
Connection and disconnection have nothing to do with how spiritual you are, but it can evolve your spirituality as you practice being connected. Lets look at how this works. When you are disconnected, you will experience feelings of depressed, being limited, tired, anxious, fearful, anger, frustration, etc. When you are connected you will have feelings of joy, expansion, compassion, love, tolerance, forgiveness, awareness, and more. If you see someone that you feel if less fortunate that you begging on the street, from your disconnected state, you might feel guilty, disgust, repulsion and anger which is triggered by that person being there. But these are still your emotions, and the gift that that person has given you is that you recognise that you are disconnected in that moment. If you see them from your connected state, you can still see what they represent and you will not have any negative reactions to them. Instead you could even send them love and compassion for their life choices and situation without being spat out of your connection. By seeing another through the eyes of connection there is an offering and a gift of energy given, and you feel good and they feel good.
As within, so without. We do for others, and we do for ourselves.
Be in a state of grace within, and it will translate into the world...”