What it means to be a Spiritual person

welcome kenneth!

to me, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. we are spiritual beings having a human experience. that quote has always summed it up for me lol. EVERYTHING is spiritual, if you look deeply enough into it. From a beautiful sermon given at your temple, church, monastery, etc... to your dog pooping on the front lawn lol.

It is only our attachment to being individual humans that we forget the spirituality in us and in everything

Namaste

Originally Posted by Kenneth

Spirituality is beyond Ego or personal views. It is not a subject of just mankind. It encompasses the whole of life - man, women, our soul, animals, the earth, the sun, the planets and all other things that we are yet to know and the numerous ways in which each interact with the other, controlled by that Vast wholeness or GOD.

Sorry Kenneth, but that doesn't figure for me. Are we not all expressing our views/perspectives on this forum? And as for being beyond the ego, how many threads descend into the realms of 'tit for tat' posts? So much talk about transcending the ego but it's still very much evident.

I believe there is Spirituality in not being Spiritual. Perhaps to some it's about thinking all these 'higher thoughts' and understanding all of those complex subjects, but I believe Spirituality is everywhere and in everything. Are we not Spirit on a human Journey, is our time here not contributing to our Soul's/Spirit's development? Whichever way we choose to spend that time?

Originally Posted by surrendertotheflow

welcome kenneth!

to me, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. we are spiritual beings having a human experience. that quote has always summed it up for me lol. EVERYTHING is spiritual, if you look deeply enough into it. From a beautiful sermon given at your temple, church, monastery, etc... to your dog pooping on the front lawn lol.

It is only our attachment to being individual humans that we forget the spirituality in us and in everything

Namaste

Spiritual synchronicity :-)

[GentleStrength]

I agree that we are all spirit just based upon the fact that we exist. Currently consciousness expressed through physical form.

As far as a spiritual person, I tend to feel that it is a description of someone who is actively exploring their own mind/heart/emotion and spiritual being to understand themselves as clearly as possible and grow towards becoming "more" of who they wish to be. There are certainly a lot of people who don't consider doing this at all, but I believe there are more and more of us all the time.

Btw,welcome!

Love and Light

[Chrysaetos]

Originally Posted by Kenneth

So, what it means to be a spiritual person? I would like to get views on the subject before I give my views.

By defining it, it comes close to an established form of religion.

I don't consider myself to be a 'spiritual person'. It smells like a 'rank' to me..
Spiritual as opposed to non-spiritual. Or spirit vs matter..
What is 'spirit' or 'spiritual'? And 'person'?

lol I just ran into this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7Jvy...eature=related

might give you a good idea.

Everybody thinks you have to be all mystic and stoic in their attitudes, using phrases like "loving light be with you" and having a totem animal or spirit guide ..etc

Everything is made up of the same omniscient stuff vibrating at different frequencies, just be true to yourself, compose with your mind and express with your body, even expressing your urges and saying "F*** Y**!!!!" is a spiritual gesture, it's just most everyone ties judgments, categories, and natures to things that simply are what they are, not good or bad or right and wrong or etc. Everything is what it is and it is either practical or impractical to a means.

Just do what excites and enjoys you and do it with awareness. Be spiritual and go watch some porn if it suits your desire lol, ANYTHING!

Originally Posted by Seven

Be spiritual and go watch some porn if it suits your desire lol, ANYTHING!

Apparently you were a hippie in this or some past life, lol.

haha, I'm just in a tacky mood and I like to use examples of what might be considered "inappropriate" by a society's/religion's doctrines. Fundamentally a thing is simply what it is and has unlimited potential. You can take for example something that might be something vile and disgusting and completely unspoken of in the presence of the mass public, and it will only hold those characteristics because of that society's choice to be bound to them. Of course the only way to be free of limited beliefs and discomforts is to accept them and let them be and they'll no longer hold any position in determining the quality of your life. You can choose for a thing to be discomforting out of personal interest, fantasy...etc whatever and that's perfectly OK but to sustain rules to SUPPRESS the EXPRESSION of a thing to prohibit the possibility of discomfort to yourself or others is outrageously detrimental to the growth and wellbeing of civilization in the long run. It is not the expression that hurts you, it is YOU that hurts you, by choice, consciously or unconsciously.

Sorry for ranting on a subject, but it still can be considered relative to the topic as it is something spiritual, but I make a point of it because I feel it is one of the most important things for society to realize. Sheltering yourself from and prohibiting ANY form of expression will only stunt yours and other's growth...unless you want to live in a mental cage all your life.

[Internal Queries]

Originally Posted by bbr

Apparently you were a hippie in this or some past life, lol.

is there something wrong with hippies? methinks the "new age" movement owes most of it's existance to hippies.

(i fail to make the connection between hippies and porn though.)

[Perspective]

Originally Posted by Kenneth

So, what it means to be a spiritual person?

I love questions like this - & to read responses - so thanks for asking.

To me, we are all spiritual. It's our nature.
Everyone has DESIRE, reason for doing what they do.
At the heart of this desire is to connect with the spirit within us - to feel LOVE.
God & spirituality are love.
Love is wanting & striving for what is best, through trial & error.

Some inhibit the spirit within & are not expressing their true spiritual personality - too afraid of error or otherwise misguided.
Babies & young children are great examples of being purely spiritually expressive - no guile & no fear of making errors.
As we focus our love - thought & energy on - being our true spiritual selves (especially in working TOWARD goals), we become more aware & expressive spiritually.