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What does the term "spiritual" mean to you?

Here we are in the category Religion & Spirituality. We usually talk about religion, but leave the second term pretty undefined. Let's hear your definition.

Update:

OK, if you use a definition like "pertaining to the spirit," then I guess I need a definition of that term. I asked what it means to you, not to your dictionary.

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    To me the term "spiritual" means At peace with your inner self.

  • 9 years ago

    Spirituality = finding and discovering our inner thoughts and emotions

    Example: when someone says stop and smell the roses, let everything in your head go at that particular moment and take everything in and process it. You have sights and smells and thoughts about what you are experiencing ...and while Theists monopolize Spirituality with ecclesiastic meanings it can be atheists who are spiritual as well!

    Spiritual experiences are almost universal to the human experience. Without the trappings of religion, it may be difficult to recognize and identify spiritual elements in the atheist's life but nevertheless, they can usually be found.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Spiritual pertains to the holy and immaterial part of us.

    When an individual accepts Christ as their personal Savior, the Holy Spirit of God comes to indwell him/her. We still have the flesh nature (old man-Col. 3:5-10). But as we give control to the Holy Spirit, He guides, instructs, and convicts us to walk worthy (Eph. 4:1-3) of our calling and holy before our holy God.

    Every time we sin we either grieve (Eph. 4:30) or quench (I Thess. 5:19) the Holy Spirit from functioning within us so we must keep our sins confessed (I John 1:9) in order to be and stay right with God. Without the Holy Spirit functioning in and through us there is nothing we can do in and of ourselves that pleases God (Rom. 8:8; Gal. 5:16).

    God wants us to produce the fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22-23) and the only way we can is to have the Holy Spirit working in and through us. When we are producing the fruit of the Spirit and abiding in Christ (John 15:1-11), we are said to be "spiritual."

    Source(s): The New Open Bible Study Edition, NKJV
  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    It doesn't matter what I define it as. The definition is "Of, relating to, or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things."

    Since I do not believe in the spirit, the soul, the immaterial, or anything supernatural, I do not believe spirituality exists either.

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  • 9 years ago

    I am an agno-myst

    and i believe,

    spirituality is knowing and experiencing the existential truth

    through the development of the consciousness and the awareness.

    It is the way that leads to ultimate freedom or liberation or moksha or nirvana.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Adjective. Pertaining to the spirit.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    I define "spiritual" as the acknowledgement and appreciation of the wide array of subjective qualia our existence as sentient beings allows us to experience.

    Seeing the colour red, tasting something sweet, being moved by a beautiful song, feeling the emotion of love, or exploring altered states of awareness through psychotropics are all, by my definition, examples of "spiritual" experiences. It is relishing our opportunity to experience firsthand the human condition.

  • David
    Lv 4
    9 years ago

    Everything that has to do with the spirit. All that is right and good in this world and the next. Basicly the opposite of religion.

  • someg
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    When we speak of spiritual we mean the metaphysical. Some people say this realm is real and others say it is not.

  • To me, it is just being a human being who can take and also accept the good things with the bad.

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