Does everyone need spirituality? About human spiritual development

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AVAlexander VolchekSpiritual development and the spiritual pathSpiritSpirituality for everyoneAnxiety, stress, and inner calmFear

What is said here

• 00:00Does everyone need spirituality at all? Or is it only for people who are already involved in it? Look, let us distinguish the categories.Spirit · Spirituality for everyone
• 01:04People usually see spiritual life as something separate, special: going to a place of worship, sitting in meditation, or performing a ritual.Spirit · The soul · Time
• 02:57“I practice the piano, so I would give this the same sort of attention.” I say, “All right, you do that, but please consider whether the physical body is primary in relation to the soul…”The soul · Archangel · Spirit
• 05:06If someone does not believe any of this, does that mean they do not need to engage in spiritual life? They do not need spirituality?Spirit · God · The soul
• 06:48What does not looking after it mean? Not cleaning the bathtub or toilet, not cleaning the different surfaces. The apartment will gradually rot and deteriorate; the house will gradually…Health · Spirit
• 08:16Notice that people do not want to maintain or understand the state of the spiritual world. They want development, results; they want…Spirit · Garden / plants
• 11:05What if someone is afraid to look into spirituality because things might get worse? Many are afraid to explore it because it seems things can only become more difficult: you might begin seeing things you…Spirit · Fear · Love
• 15:28Suppose someone understands and accepts that these spiritual aspects of life exist, that spirituality and spiritual life exist, but knows nothing about them. They want to begin exploring.Spirit · Time
• 17:17There is no mistake in that at all. None. Please, focus only on that point, that particular action, but understand that enormous numbers of other…Spirit · Time
• 18:42Or only going to church to ask for help. Or making the sign of the cross when a black cat crosses your path.Spirit

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• 00:45

  To avoid endlessly going around the question of whether spirituality is needed, we first need to examine what spiritual life actually is.

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• 01:25

  I always explain it this way: if you accept the soul as a fact, or know and accept that spirit exists.

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• 05:50

  Suppose there is a person with a physical body and some soul or spirit. They perceive their physical body at least to some extent.

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• 08:22

  They want development, results, greater strength in the spiritual world; they want to be better in spiritual terms.

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• 08:59

  Yet when studying human development, we know perfectly well that people differ in spiritual strength.

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• 11:25

  It is like saying, “I will not look into our personal relationship, because that would be very hard. I would sleep badly and feel stressed.”

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• 16:00

  At the beginning, we asked which is primary, the physical body or the soul. Understand that there is a spiritual world, a spiritual human being, and components of that world and that spiritual human being.

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• 16:14

  If we map what is actually happening in the spiritual world and with you as a human being, we can build a two-dimensional model—not even a three-dimensional one, although it is impossible to map a person’s spiritual being in three dimensions.

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• 16:33

  That is difficult to grasp, so even if we draw a two-dimensional picture, we will see that this current life is a point on the map.

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• 19:21

  We call someone a saint simply because they have certain attributes.

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