What is spiritual? This is a question that people struggle with from time to time. In an ever materialistic and scientific world, the habit is to leave the spiritual behind. Spiritual is something that is hard to understand, and even harder to get any answers from. Although some of life's most satisfying answers can come the unknown world of the spirit.
"Great, so what are the answers?" you may ask. Unfortunately, like everything else in the world, its not that simple. Just like with any skill or idea, spiritual answers come with time and work. There are no free tickets when it comes to the spiritual. The time and work that one puts into learning about the spiritual world will lead to eventual success, one just has to persevere to reap the rewards. Persistence is the biggest key.
"Well, if you don't have the answers, how do I get them?" is probably the next thing running through your mind. This is where the spiritual starts changing for every person, and where things begin to get tricky. There are thousands of books in the world about a myriad of topics under spiritualism. A quick search on Amazon.com came back with fifty-eight thousand books under the term "spirituality".
A pile of books that deep would take anyone a while to read. Don't get intimidated by that though, because I have good news. You don't have to read all those books to enjoy a spiritual life. In fact, you could get by swimmingly well without most of those books. I would definitely suggest getting a few and trying them out, there are pearls of wisdom in each and every one. But spirituality is also not just about books. Its about something a lot more personal in fact.
At this very moment, as you read these words, you are doing something very spiritual. You don't recognize is as such, because you've been living with this very spiritual activity for your whole life. At this very moment, you might be asking yourself what that might be? Perhaps you already know what it is, and are thinking that I'm either cleaver or foolish for this example. Regardless of what you are right now thinking, the spiritual activity that you are doing is "being".
You are thinking, or listening, or just aware in some way I may not understand. You are aware, you can think and understand, have feelings, recall memories, and all these things are in some level, spiritual. Our spiritual existence at the most basic level, is just us ourselves. That might not seem very miraculous, and I understand if you might be disappointed in this anticlimactic realization. But its an important base to know, because everything else is built off of it.
You, and everything that makes you, you, is spiritual in essence. Ideas, memories, thoughts, feelings, hopes, dreams, every facet of your individuality is a part of your existing as a spiritual being. Everything else spiritual will stem from that core center of you. Your understanding of the spiritual world will come from you. How you affect the world spiritually also comes directly from you. How you will develop spiritually, also ultimately comes from within you, and that may be the greatest realization of them all. In the end, you are your own master of your own destiny, because it all stems outward from you.So what is spiritual? The simplest answer is, you.
