4 Differences Between Religion And Spirituality
At it’s root, a religion is more like a political group, and spirituality is the experience of an individual.
Religions Are Organizations, Spirituality Is Personal
When a group identity is formed around some set of spiritual practices, a religious organization is born. If you thought the personal ego was dangerous, consider the group-ego.
Like the personal ego, the group-ego is an idea, a meme, which strives to continue existing and multiply itself, sometimes at the expense of the bodies and minds which host it. The organization drifts from its original intentions and becomes worldly, focusing on evangelism and money.
Spirituality is the experience of an individual — a person’s direct relationship with life, truth, God, if you will. This sort of personal relationship can never really be fully explained in words.
The description of feelings and changes of character can only point, can only suggest a path, but the individual is the one that must walk it. Like getting physically fit, you can explain it all you want, but only you can do your own push-ups.
