We can enhance & deepen our lives thru developing our spirituality. What can we do to enhance our spirituality? In order to do so, we must understand just what spirituality is.
The human being is a composite creature, comprised of a body + "something else." The body is essentially an animal body. What is the "something else?"
The "something else" is the sum of all the features, in addition to intellect, that are unique to the human being, which animals in the wild lack. For example, human beings can learn from the history of past generations; animals can't.
People can reflect on the purpose & goal of life; animals can't. People can think about what they must do to become better people. I doubt that animals think consciously of self-improvement. Human beings can deny gratification of physical drives for moral & ethical reasons; animals can't.
Except for maternal instinct, animals in the wild probably don't sacrifice of their comfort & possessions to help a strange animal. People can be altruistic. The aggregate of all the unique features of a human being that distinguishes man from animals is what I call the "spirit."
If a person implements the elements of the spirit, he is being "spiritual." Spirituality, then, is being & becoming the finest human being one can be.
Rabbi Abraham Twerski, M.D. is a nationally acknowledged expert in the field of alcoholism and chemical dependency, and is currently the Medical Director of the Gateway Rehabilitation Center in Pittsburgh , as well as an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The author of several books, Dr. Twerski has written extensively and lectured world-wide about the problem of chemical dependency
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