Religious people associate spirituality with God and the supernatural; non-religious people find spiritual growth and maturity (spirituality) -sans God or religion- as an element that naturally occurs. Is spirit natural or supernatural?
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kakskee
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Technically, 'spirit' doesn't exist at all... at least, not on its own. Spirit is how we talk about the whole person, mostly because we lack a better word. I use the phrase "spiritual development" with a lot of footnotes, because I certainly don't mean anything magical or mystical. Being more compassionate is spiritual development. Being wiser is spiritual development. Understanding authentic self is spiritual development. Seeing the interconnectedness of life is spiritual development. All of that arises as humans grow toward maturity, it's an integral part of being human. That does not mean there are mystical substances floating around inside us somehow which live on after the body dies.
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