Defining Spirituality

 

What dose spirituality mean to you?

(Choose one or more of those definitions that seem to apply to you.)

 

1.  Spirituality is:
- A person’s relationship with God
- The deepest level from which a human being operates
- The philosophical context of a person’s life (values, rules, attitudes, and views)
- The same as religion

 

 

          The second and third definitions describe spirituality in a broad sense. Many people believe that these broad definitions are the most useful way to think of spirituality. They view being spiritual as something that has to do with a person’s spirit or soul, as distinguished from the physical nature. Some people believe the level and degree of spirituality in a person’s life will dictate the quality of life. In Finding Inner Peace (1988), Earnie Larson suggests you can assess the quality of your spirituality by answering the following questions: *

 

 

2.  How much is enough? (What do you want from life, and are you getting it?)

 

 

3.  Upon what is my security based? (What would it take to destroy you?)

 

 

4.  Who do I have to be before I approve of myself? (What qualities are most important to you?)

 

 

5.  What dose success mean to me? (What dose “making it�?mean?)

 

 

6.  What would be the most comfortable and easy way for me to increase the spiritual aspects of my own life, should I choose to do so?

 

 

 

 

 

[*Reprinted and passed around public groups with permission from the author.]