A learned man was once asked to explain the difference between
RELIGION and SPIRITUALITY.
Here are little point of his;
| Religion | Spirituality |
|---|
| ▪ 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 reason about everything, to question everything. |
| ▪ Religion threatens and frightens. | Spirituality gives inner peace. |
| ▪ Religion speaks of sin and guilt. | Spirituality says, "learn from an error". |
| ▪ Religion represses everything which is false. | Spirituality transcends everything, it brings you closer to your truth! |
| ▪ Religion speaks of a God; It is not God. | Spirituality is everything and therefore, it is in God. |
| ▪ Religion invents. | Spirituality finds. |
| ▪ Religion does not tolerate any question. | Spirituality questions everything. |
| ▪ Religion is human. It is an organization with rules made by men. | Spirituality is Divine, without human rules. |
| ▪ Religion is the cause of divisions. | Spirituality unites. |
| ▪ Religion is looking for you to believe. | Spirituality you have to look for it to believe. |
| ▪ 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 lives in thought. | Spirituality lives in Inner Consciousness. |
| ▪ Religion deals with performing rituals. | Spirituality has to do with the Inner Self. |
| ▪ Religion feeds the ego. | Spirituality drives to transcend beyond. |
| ▪ 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. |
| ▪ Religion makes us believe in eternal life. | Spirituality makes us aware of Eternal Life. |
| ▪ Religion promises life after death. | Spirituality is to find God in our interior during the current life before death. |
We are not human beings, who go through a spiritual experience
but
We are spiritual beings, who go through a human experience.
