by .:.AJW.:.
Spirituality ? Discover your Road to Happiness
What is Spirituality? Spirituality can be considered as an inner highway, and this leads only to one place, your permanent and everlasting happiness. As happiness is our real and natural state, spirituality also acts as the transport as well as the highway there.
Why Men are Not Spiritual
The call of the senses, the misplaced use of desire, and lure of the material life all call men away from spirituality.
This is why the ancients believed the world belonged to the devil, and the real life and paradise, belonged to God.
The devil, or non-spirituality, wished to entrap men in the material world, while spirituality leads man to his true nature, and happiness.
The material life does not lead to happiness. In all men’s lives the material leads to old age, sickness, and death.
The spiritual life leads to eternal youth, permanent well-being and eternity. However, the material life masks this, and gives one the impression that:
• There is only one life, so eat, drink and be merry
• There is no spiritual life
• Men are simple biological creations
• The pursuit of happiness lies in money, power and wish fulfillment
With the material presenting such an array of life’s qualities, one is tempted to turn their back on spirituality.
However, the material life betrays itself with disease, decreasing enjoyment of material objects and external stimulation, and finally the specter of death.
A thinking man, once considering the limitations and qualities of material life may (and often) turns to something better. This is
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