| Re: Things that don't make you "spiritual" |
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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: tata Date: Jul 9, 2008 10:58
On Jul 9, 1:33 pm, Publius nospam.comcast.net> wrote:>> -- Telling everyone how "spiritual" you are
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>> -- Reading "spiritual" books
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>> -- Believing things that other "spiritual" people believe
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>> -- Deferring to "spiritual authorities"
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>> -- Going to social events with other "spiritual" people
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>> -- Wearing "spiritual" clothes
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>> -- Buying crystals
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>> -- Saying "Namaste"
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>> -- Cutting and pasting "spiritual" quotes from "spiritual" people
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> Now, if we could only figure out what "being spiritual" means, all of those
> tips might prove useful.
Sometimes the only way to really understand what something *is* is to
discover, through experience, what it *is not*. By denying the
negative, the positive is left standing there to "see" as plain as
day.
Otherwise we are always trapped in language, which can never
adequately describe "what is".
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