SPIRITUALITY IS DIFFERENT FROM RELIGION
SPIRITUALITY IS DIFFERENT FROM RELIGION "The 21st century will be religious or it will not be at all”. These words of warning have traditionally been attributed to AndrĂ© Malraux, French writer and Minister of Culture during the latter years of General De Gaulle’s government. Yet when we see how religions can be destrutive of life I think we shoud better use the word "spirituality" instead of "religion". So, let's put it this way: The 21st century will be spiritual or will not be at all. This fits better Reality. A religion is a set of rules, rituals and saint stories which represent a thought-system that keeps us identified with our thoughts because it speaks to the thinker in us through the words of its book. In this it is not different from any other thought-system, could it be social, cultural, political, scientific, philosophical or just trivial. Yet a human BEING is BEING expressed into a human shape. And BEING is infinite Consciousness in essen