A learned man was once asked to explain the difference between Religion and Spirituality. His response was profound:

▪ 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.

-We are spiritual beings, who go through a human experience.

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