Essay: Spiritual Growth

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This essay discusses spiritual growth. Spirituality, spiritual, and spirit, as they are used in modern culture, can mean, almost anything. We are involved with our spiritual growth, so we buy books from One Spirit Book Club, engage in spiritual practice, condemn the lack of spirituality in some of our mainstream religious experiences, and work hard at finding the difference, if there is one, between spirit and Spirit.

Introduction

Spirituality, spiritual, and spirit, as they are used in modern culture, can mean, almost anything. We are involved with our spiritual growth, so we buy books from One Spirit Book Club, engage in spiritual practice, condemn the lack of spirituality in some of our mainstream religious experiences, and work hard at finding the difference, if there is one, between spirit and Spirit. Elsewhere, we respect the Great Spirit that the students exhibit at the pep rally, the “fighting spirit” of our men and women in uniform, and the tough spirit of an ill or aging loved one. Some of us pray to the Holy Spirit, we do our best to shun evil spirits, and we acknowledge those feelings with which we agree by saying, “That’s the spirit!” We continue in this vein, discover the various meanings attributed to these words, limited only by our conditioned belief that though the spirit is willing, the flesh is feeble.

The word spiritual is derived from “spirit” — whose source is  the Latin word , spiritus -“breath,” which is interpreted, in Merriam-Webster, as life-giving force or animating principle. So

  • “spiritual” will submit to that which concerns this life-giving force or animating principle and
  • “spirituality to that superiority or characteristic of being concerned with that which is spiritual.

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