Spiritual Development

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Religious individuals are known to practice certain ceremonial and traditional behaviors. Much of this is done automatically because as children they were simply told to behave and to think about spirituality in a certain way. This paper examines how spiritual development is most purely experienced on a personal level once the full understanding of the meaning of these practices and beliefs is realized. It looks at how conceivably all these traditional ways of developing spiritually are significant to one development, but spiritual growth simply occurs when the individual inner faith exceeds the longing for the physical world around them.

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"Silence in spiritual development Silence can be best described as time spent in accordance with God, focusing only on his word quiet reflection. When time is spent in silent reflection, one acquires a state of awareness and knowing that they are in God's presence. This inner stillness and attentive listening brings total surrender to God's word. This leads to spiritual poverty and self-emptying (Duff 2003, 227). It is during a period of silence, we turn from words to seek God's voice and guidance. The sanctuary of silence helps cleanse and invigorate one's spirit. In the Christian Biblical version of the Creation, God 'spoke' and the world came to exist. The center of Christian meditation is to return to this primal state. "

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