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Originally Posted by nosussbeliefs  Injoy Can you give me what your definition of a spirit is? |
As I currently experience and understand it...
My spirit is that which gives me life. It's the (heretofore) unmeasured, unexplained, often unperceived light (or force) that is present in everything. I perceive it kind of like a tether to the rest of the Universe. (My particular belief is that God is everything, and you and I are a part of that everything, and therefore a part of God.) For some reason, I also feel that my spirit includes my consciousness in some significant way. But I cannot explain that feeling, nor can I substantiate it. I just sense it.
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Originally Posted by nosussbeliefs And why you need this belief to be happy? |
As I said in my previous post, I cannot say that anyone needs this belief to be happy. In fact, all I really know is that when I did not have this belief, I was not happy. However, it is also true that there were other factors involved with my unhappiness at that time.
I do know that my spiritual beliefs are the source of a good deal of my present happiness.
It's actually an interesting conundrum. Take a blind person for instance. Like an atheist, they have no sense of something that some others (sighted, or spiritual) claim that they do. If you were to ask a sighted person if they could be happy being blind, could they give you an accurate answer without actual experience? If you were ask a blind person if they were happy being blind, could you be sure that their idea of happiness was of the same measure as the sighted person? Would someone who had experienced both states be able to give an accurate comparison of their before and after happiness? Would the order in which those experiences occurred affect the perception of happiness?