http://www.mindvalleyacademy.com/blog/spirit/differences-between-religion-and-spirituality
https://spiritualityhealth.com/articles/2012/05/31/what-difference-between-religion-and-spirituality
Religion is learning from someone elses experience, spirituality is having your own experience.
Religion is belief in someone else experience, spirituality is having your own experience.
People tend to think of spirituality as something very strange and mysterious and can struggle to differentiate it from religion. This perhaps stems from modern-day society having a fear of being manipulated and have a lack of knowledge when it comes to non-material subjects.
Spirituality is simply your own conscious self recognizing that you are more than just a body, that you are a soul with infinite potential.
Spirituality reminds us that we are not separate, there are no borders, no races and no cultural divides.1. There are no rules to Spirituality
As opposed to following a specific ideology or a set of rules spirituality allows you to listen. Listen to your intuition and do what is right for yourself and others around you. It truly sets you free to be the best you can be and to be a good person with no promise of punishment or reward. The reward is simply your own inner happiness.
2. Spirituality is based only on love and not fear
Dotted throughout religion there is lots of fear. Fear of the consequences of your actions, fear of what might happen after you die if you don’t live your life accordingly.
Well, with spirituality there is only Love, it encourages you to focus all of your energy only on the good, and to act only based on love.
It shows you How to Stand Despite Being Afraid, how to move on doing what you feel it’s right despite the consequences that may come. It shows you how to act on love and not on fear, it shows you how to control fear and use the best of it.
3. Religion tells you the truth – Spirituality lets you discover it
As opposed to telling you in black and white how the universe was created and why we are here, Spirituality lets you discover these questions and answers for yourself.
It empowers you to find your own truth in all things and sets no limits to how deep you can go in understanding all there is to know.
4. Religion segregates, Spirituality unites
Through our world there are many religions and they all preach that their story is the right story.
Spirituality sees the truth in all of them and unites them because the truth is same for all of us despite our differences and uniqueness.
It focuses on the quality of the divine message they share and not on the differences in details of the story they speak.
5. Walk your own path
Instead of learning only from ancient stories, spirituality encourages you to make your own path and create your own stories. This sets you on a journey of enlightenment and self-discovery to which the only limits can be set by yourself. If you look at religion it all stems from a deep spirituality. Jesus and Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) for example all had deeply profound spiritual journeys before they embarked on their own journeys.
"To me, religions are like languages: no language is true or false; all languages are of human origin; each language reflects and shapes the mindset of the civilization that speaks it; there are things you can say in one language that you cannot say or cannot say as well in another; and the more languages you know, the more nuanced your understanding of life.... In the end, however, the deepest language of the soul is silence." Rabbi Rami Shapiro, 2017
"To me, religions are like languages: no language is true or false; all languages are of human origin; each language reflects and shapes the mindset of the civilization that speaks it; there are things you can say in one language that you cannot say or cannot say as well in another; and the more languages you know, the more nuanced your understanding of life.... In the end, however, the deepest language of the soul is silence." Rabbi Rami Shapiro, 2017
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