evolution

Each person's individual spiritual evolution happens at a different pace. By spiritual evolution , I mean the gradual awakening of a sense of peace with oneself and an understanding of if not the meaning of life at least the purpose of one's existence. It is my belief that when one goes through that journey, one develops qualities like patience, slowness to judge or criticize, a lessening of ego and a feeling of kinship with everyone. Without any of these , the entire spiritual journey becomes meaningless.

For these very reasons, I don't hold with using spirituality as a weapon or religion as a cause for conflict. Religion is meaningless by itself - if the individual does not evolve ,it does not matter what his religion is - why make religion such an excuse to do the most base actions?We can do away with religion entirely in fact if we bother to attempt to recognize our own godliness.