If I were to define spirituality, I would first say that it is a different way of being.
Usually, our experience of existence and life is quite limited, closed-off, framed, and dominated by
underlying emotions: fear, anger, apprehension, the need for validation, anxiety, and restlessness.
In this experience, we view the world through our fears, anxieties, and desires for acceptance and
recognition. Consequently, we do not see the world as it truly is.
Above all, the spiritual experience involves embracing silence and setting aside our natural
subjectivity and ordinary mode of existing in the world. It means, first, to empty and purify oneself,
and cleanse one’s perspective. It involves cleaning the lenses of our consciousness, and that
constitutes the spiritual practice.
From this point forward, we can continually discover a new way to approach things, much like the
approach found in artistic expression.