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Welcome | Spiritual humanism - The alternative to conventional spirituality
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Spirituality Without God could be seen as a fresh and original approach to spiritual life, founded in a truly humanistic perspective. Being both an expression of our deepest need and the fulfillment of our greatest potential, spiritual life is a profoundly human affair. Our quest for integral living has to be given its rightful place in the context of human life. For this to happen, the development and refinement of the human spirit has to be set free from the religious and mystical traditions with their dependence on God and all other forms of the Great Beyond. Spiritual awakening is a process whereby the human spirit is allowed to reveal itself as a many-faceted well of wisdom, compassion and wholeness. For this we do not need God. We need only to allow for the recognition and unfolding of the truly humane within us.
One of the most important insights which this book explores and communicates is that we need not place our trust in any specific tradition, philosophy, religion or teacher for the complete fulfillment of our spiritual journey. It is not necessary to complicate our enquiry with all the traditional forms of spiritual, metaphysical (other worldly) or religious ideas presented to us as revelatory truths. Rather, if we approach our situation with a true spirit of enquiry we will soon discover that we are naturally endowed with an Intelligence and purity of heart - the expression of which will satisfy our deepest quest for human well-being. It does this not only in a coherent and practical way, but most characteristically as an awakened sense of compassion and charity, which naturally extends itself towards other human beings and life in general.
For this humanizing process to unfold and to become our living reality, our starting point would be the recognition that there is absolutely nothing suspect about our born condition. As humans we lack nothing for the complete fulfillment of our deeply felt need for inner and outer order, happiness, emotional equanimity and a fully integrated, spiritual life. We are born into a wholeness of life that will naturally express itself through unconditional Intelligence and pure emotion, if only we could allow for its unfolding.
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