It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing.
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Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.
The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true.
I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening.
I realize that I cannot live without a spiritual dimension in my life.
I've been praying that we might have a spiritual awakening. But I think that becomes possible as individuals surrender their lives fresh and anew to Christ.
To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.
The spiritual self of each of us is that part of us that will never grow old, or ill, or die, but it must be nurtured and invigorated!
Down through the ages, there has always been the spiritual path. It's been passed on - it always will be - and if anybody ever wants it in any age, it's always there.
A lot of people that embark on spiritual endeavors tended to, especially in the '60s and '70s, they tended to give up what they had before and cut themselves off from their lives, previous life as it were. But, I don't think that one should do that.
One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.
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