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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience."

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Well, ain't it the truth. Who quoted it?

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    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    I could accept that through the manipulations of data, the software program controls the computer. However, not everyone is just as ready to accept a man made system could be alive -- if it was complex enough.

    Either way, a spiritual being has its human responsibility to its body as well as fellow bodies too!

    Don't we take care of our vehicles, observe traffic rules, avoid accidents and put insurance on them? As long as we have possession of the vehicles we have more to deal with, not less. Same should be true for spirit, soul, body or whatever theories / religions out there.

  • 1 decade ago

    Maybe we are Spiritual Beings having a Divine Experience?

  • Parsu
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Yes that is mentioned in the Bhagavad Gita. we are not this body but Spirit Souls...

    "For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain." (BG 2.20)

    " As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies (Human experience as u mention), giving up the old and useless ones"(BG 2.22).

    So you are very correct in saying that our actual nature is Spiritual. Service to God is our real nature. Loving God is our real nature.. We just have to revive it back..

    Source(s): Bhagavad Gita As It Is http://www.bhagavadgitaasitis.com/en
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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    We are human beings in hopes of a spiritual existence.

  • 1 decade ago

    Existentially...we are both...together

    Buddhist, gnostic, Aristotelian/Platonic/Plotinus thinking

    or Buber, Zoroaster, Johanine. Pauline thinking

    or Simon Trismagistus, Theodore of Mopsuestia or Appolonius of Tyanna...

    and a cast of hundreds....take your pick

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    That's a cool and very true thought. I think most of us have shut down that side of ourselves. We just see flashes of our spiritual selves like during sex, very emotional moments and death experiences. Too bad we have to nearly die to experience spiritual life.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    We are spirit, we have a soul(mind, intellect, will, emotions) and

    we live in a physical body. Our spirit contacts the physical

    world with the body.

    1Th 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and [I pray God] your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    I Corinthians 13;8a, Love never fails!!!!!

    9-5-6

  • AiW
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    I think the term spirit has no real definition that points to anything in reality and it is a meaningless sound that people make.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Well i guess if the spiritual is eternal then that would be a realistic way of looking at it.

  • 1 decade ago

    May be better if the word "human" was replaced with either "fleshly" or "carnal", then it would definitely be more of a contrast.

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