Spirituality is a letting go

Firstly, spiritualism is not the right term for spirituality. As traditionally used, it refers to mediums, psychics, spirits, contact with the dead and everything that has to do with the spooky world of the occult. Spirituality, on the other hand, is an understanding of consciousness that allows you to experience everything in its contextual and relational nature. It is to have a religious experience without being religious. It is to experience your non-local self, your transpersonal self.

Since the infinite being is infinite by definition, it expresses itself through maximum diversity. To a spiritual person, nothing human is foreign. In other words, the measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with contradiction, paradox, and ambiguity. The nature of reality is that nothing can be put on pause. Change is the only change. There is nothing to pursue in a constantly evolving universe. Spirituality is a letting go, in which you join the ecstatic evolutionary impulse of the universe, as it expresses itself through creativity.

Morality is the domain of hypocrites and self-righteous morality is just jealousy with a halo. It has nothing to do with spirituality.

I listen to my inner silence in waking, dreaming and sleeping. By and large, religious institutions are quarrelsome, divisive, and sometimes idiotic in their behaviour. The moment of truth is a moment of self referred consciousness, where one is independent of the good and bad opinions of others, and therefore immune to criticism and flattery. I am not here yet. I feel amulets and bracelets and photographs of God are cover-ups for insecurity, and so are Roberto Cavalli designs, innerwear with pictures of gods. They are a particular "brand" of god, and have nothing to do with infinite awareness. To be identified with any brand, whether marketed by a temple or a designer, is to dis-empower yourself and lose your authenticity.

Deepak Chopra