A learned man was once asked to explain the difference between Religion and Spirituality. His response was profound:
▪ Religion is not just one, there are many.
▪ Spirituality is one.
▪ Religion is for those who sleep.
▪ Spirituality is for those who are awake.
▪ Religion is for those who need someone to tell them what to do and want to be guided.
▪ Spirituality is for those who pay attention to their inner voice.
▪ Religion has a set of dogmatic rules.
▪ Spirituality invites us to explore within and get attuned to the Universal Rules.
▪ Religion threatens and frightens.
▪ Spirituality gives inner peace.
▪ Religion speaks of sin and guilt.
▪ Spirituality leads us on the path of emancipation!
▪ Religion represses everything which it considers false.
▪ Spirituality transcends everything, it brings us closer to our Truth!
▪ Religion invents.
▪Spirituality helps us to discover.
▪ Religion does not tolerate any question.
▪Spirituality encourages searching questions.
▪ Religion is human. It is an organization with rules made by men.
▪ Spirituality is Divine, without human rules....leads us to the Causeless Cause!
▪ Religion divides between us and them.
▪Spirituality unites.
▪ Religion follows the concepts of a sacred book.
▪ Spirituality seeks the sacred in all books.
▪ Religion feeds on fear.
▪ Spirituality feeds on trust and faith.
▪ Religion makes us to live in External Reality.
▪ Spirituality lives in Inner Consciousness.
▪ Religion deals with performing rituals.
▪ Spirituality has to do with the Inner Self.
▪ Religion feeds on internal ego.
▪ Spirituality drives to transcend beyond self.
▪ Religion makes us renounce the world to follow a God.
▪ Spirituality makes us live in God, without renouncing our existing lives.
▪ Religion is a cult.
▪ Spirituality is inner meditation.
▪ Religion fills us with dreams of glory in paradise.
▪ Spirituality makes us live the glory and paradise on earth.
▪ Religion lives in the past and in the future.
▪ Spirituality lives in the present.
▪ Religion creates cloisters in our memory.
▪ Spirituality liberates our Consciousness.
We are not human beings, who go through a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings, who go through a human experience.
First of all I tell you understand what is spirit. If you are spiritual then you are walking with God. But if you are a religious man then you are just doing the fleshly activities, and it is useless. I tell the truth The word is Spirit, which control your body and the whole earth. Just imagine if there is no word in you how can you move. That means you are dead person. so understand The word which you speak is Spirit and God. So look for the Holy Spirit, yes the Holy word. You say means it happens, then that word is Holy spirit, yes Holy word.
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I also found this one interesting.
The differences between these two spheres are similar to those between BELIEVING and HAVING FAITH. The believer is one who, experiencing a sense of inner emptiness, tries to fill it by turning to the outside world, inevitably ending up settling for comforting and simplistic answers. In fact, religion, whatever it is, has only one purpose: to make us feel guilty while giving us false hopes, so that we obey without ever questioning authority. There is no evolutionary purpose in this, but only the need to control and direct the human flock where it is needed. In this sense, religion and politics are very similar; however, while the former appeals to the highest needs of human beings, the latter deals exclusively with practical and material matters. Both divide individuals into groups and categories (good and evil, conservative and progressive, etc.), ostensibly for their own good, but actually in order to better control them, also turning them against each other when they become too critical of authority itself. This concept was well described by the ancient Latins with the expression “Divide et Impera” (divide and rule).
Now pause for a moment and think about how often this ploy is put into practice, still today, by institutions, be they religious, political or otherwise. Duality operates exactly in this way, very often without us even realizing it. Religion and politics thus pursue the same purposes, but with different words.
Unlike religion, spirituality does not divide but unites; it does not produce duality but complementarity. Since the spiritual dimension is completely independent of the earthly world and material things, it cannot be manipulated by human beings either. The only thing we can do is try to attune ourselves to the spiritual dimension and contemplate it. It exists regardless of us and what we create or destroy in our limited earthly reality.
If the believer goes in search of easy and convenient external answers, finding them in religion, the one who has faith, on the contrary, searches within themselves. While the former is satisfied, the latter is insatiable and never ceases to inquire. To have faith is to perceive within oneself the immensity of the universe, or creation, of which we are a part, and to know that we are a soul and a spirit even before we are a body and a mind. Such awareness conveys a sense of inner peace that has nothing to do with the dogmas and ambiguous hopes advocated by religions. One who has faith is sufficient to themselves by perceiving themselves as part of the Whole, or, if you prefer, by finding God within themselves. The religious or believing person does not perceive this connection to the Whole because he or she is unable to tune in to the frequencies typical of the spiritual world, or the divine.
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