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Originally Posted by dor  Yes and I noted to him that the framework of a religion provides a framework to explore spiritual questions - including that culture , wisdom ect colllected and filtered through a spiritual perspective..... you can study, say the awe of nature - from a scientific perspective, artistic one, whatever,...i am just saying that spirituality is an aspect of human nature that one should explore well, the spiritual perspective.. looking at a painting for example, and analyzing its chemical make up is different from looking on it as a thing of beauty, as a technical execution, as a reflection of the artists love, ect. |
Do you think, then, that the appreciation of that painting, for example, is by its very nature spiritual? In other words, if you are appreciating the beauty of the artwork you are necessarily performing a spiritual act?