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Originally Posted by InJoy  It's an interesting concept, but the article seems to be more focussed upon happiness outside religion. I feel that religion is something completely different and separate from spirituality. I believe happiness outside of religion is absolutely possible. Perhaps even more probable because one is living outside the confines of a potentially controlling and limiting paradigm.
But can one be truly happy without spirituality? Hmmm...
I guess I can't say. I know that I was not entirely happy without some sense of my spirit, but that was only my experience. |
I don't make any sharp distinction between the "physical" world and the spiritual. I don't see any reason to believe in anything that is not physical--because I have never perceived anything that is not physical in nature, even my own mind. Life, the mind, and the spirit are all emergent properties of the way we are arranged, in the same way that the color of an object is an emergent property of the way its particles are arranged (Is there an unexplainable colorful spirit inside it?) For me, wiping away a little of the mystery does not remove any of the wonder or reverence that I feel for the human spirit and for the world around me. On the contrary, I am even happier and more fascinated now that I realize how spiritual matter can be: that life can be composed of non-living things or thought composed of non-thinking things.
I find myself getting more and more spiritual the more convinced I am that there is not a God.