Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.
What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances are everything is going to aggravate you, you're going to fly off the handle at everything and that's what I did in the past. I've kind of got that under control now.
When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.
To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.
I have an awareness of a spiritual realm, and I see signs that I feel speak to me - I don't know if that falls into superstition.
That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.
I am not a spiritual guy, but all of a sudden I felt the need to really feel things.
Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.
Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.
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.