What an Incredible start to Season 9 and 2022 with over 100 of you posting and responding to the Question, " What Does Spirituality Mean To You?". A huge thanks to everyone who took part, with SO many of you posting such deep and wise thoughts and feelings. The ecoTrain community loves to hear from all points of view from around the world, it is our diversity that makes QOTW so much more interesting! I have done my very best to curate you all, and have now made my choices for the awards to the 5 (or six) posts that I really like. Its an impossible task to really choose what is the best, especially since there is no real best answer to this in a way. Therefore I also make sure to award people who i also can see are engaged with the community and comment on other peoples posts etc.! We all love to receive more comments on our own posts, and that begins with commenting on other peoples too.

So this week before I get to the winners let us have a look at what the 100+ of you answered to this weeks QOTW. Your responses were really amazing, and whilst there are SO many different ways of saying it one thing is clear! Spirituality and Religion are so very different! More than that i think your posts all agree that Spirituality is a very personal thing, that has a similar deep meaning to us all and yet the path we each choose to find it is so very different. That is what makes the Spiritual path so special and so magical. Each of us is unique and our path is also unique. It was like an education this week reading SO many posts!

So, what I have decided to do is to copy and paste those special bits from many posts. They may be once sentence, or one paragraph. Each quote can stand on its own as well as a part of the post. If you would like to see the entire #qotw feed including all posts from previous questions then just click on this #qotw tag.

QUOTES FROM YOUR POSTS

"Religious people do not equal good and kind people if not my country will have been the only place in the whole world with no single person doing one evil or the other."
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"Spirituality means forgiveness, goodness, peace, and love because that is what God is."
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"Spirituality means Wisdom. It is finding of Who Am I? What is my purpose? What is in my Soul?
I love this quote by Bob Marley and so I had to share it."
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"Spirituality might mean different to different people but at the end of the day, what's important is to abide by your definition and pay due respect to it."
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"Spirituality is the elevation of the human spirit and purification of the sins that he acquires day and night"
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"Spirituality is an all encompassing word that tends to explain man's every activity to connect with the divine"
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"To occupy our rightful place as guardians of the living without altering the natural course of life, but rather, to honor the vital pulse and cyclicality that we embody, to adopt a posture of observation, of constant learning, of sharing knowledge, power, and love."
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"For me, the best way to equip my spirit is to meditate on the word on a daily, sing worship songs and praise the Lord of host."
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"Spirituality refers to me to the inner essence of everything. It goes beyond the physical, obviously. It means being content, complete, the everything. I think spirituality refers to being in tune with the "Whole", and has to do with what @filoriologo mentions about the transcendent or limitless."
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"For me, deep down, spirituality is a way for human beings to experience and live, to connect with things that give us life. It is a kind of "dimension" that we can reach, because it represents the bridge between the material or finite and the "infinite" or the Whole."
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"One day I realized that I was more than my own body, I understood that there were others, other eyes that looked at that which was me, and I understood that my hands could touch other bodies, and my voice could express my love to them."
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"I am what you see when your eyes are closed, that makes you understand that there is no space or time when you love"
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"When the pain is bestowed by humans, others can relieve this but can't avoid the effort to touch this. Maybe they have any sort of intention besides this. That's why we want to skip this way of healing. So we take assistance of spirituality to satisfy this desire."
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"Spirituality as a concept is different from persons to persons due to the fact that we have different personal experiences and we react to them through self-reflection in different ways. The main aim of the concept of spirituality is to discover the inner strength, power and energy to fight all the challenges of life and to be in sync that which is greater than oneself. "
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"One good thing about spirituality is that there is no limitation or restrictions to one's beliefs. A spiritual person develops day by day as they learn more about their spiritual through quiet moments in the comfort of their houses or with nature or during yoga sessions."
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"Spirituality is a belief, a sense of connection in something beyond or greater than oneself"
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"spirituality is a means to access Almighty GOD for the betterment of our life, living in holy life and fulfilling life, living in happiness and being content"
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"So spirituality for me is the door to ultimate bliss."
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"When you make progress on the path to spirituality, the real religion, you will automatically start seeing Divine everywhere. You will automatically find the qualities of love compassion truthfulness growing inside you. Spirituality doesn't ask you to leave this world and your family and your job anything else. It just makes you learn how to live really. Spirituality makes you a better human being in all aspects. Automatically you start feeling the ocean of love is inside you and love always overflowing from you reaching to everyone else around you."
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"Many people believe that being good, respectful and not doing wrong to anyone is being spiritual, but it is not. Although as I have already mentioned it is very true that spirituality brings as a consequence an accumulation of other good qualities, such as kindness, mercy, respect, humility. Being good is not synonymous with being spiritual."
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"Spirituality is seen as a sense of belief or feeling that there is someone greater than myself which is said to be supernaturally divine. To me i see being spiritual as an exercise that is meant to build the spirit of the mortal man by connecting him through personal fellowship to his divine maker. Spirituality is the advancement of religion; which serves the basic necessities of a spiritual life."
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"Spirituality is a realm beyond the natural. It guides the affairs of men and stirs their consciousness to the fact that they are mortal and there is a supernatural being that rules over the affairs of humanity. Spirituality is an identity that distinguishes someone from a mere natural or religious person. Religion is more like a template established for the purpose of fellowship or followership, which depicts our right and attitude to life and humanity."
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" I dream that the time will come when there will be only one religion: the religion of Love."
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"I'm a spiritual person, even if I do deny that label and try and act like I'm not."
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"Spirituality is not a common knowledge,
it is a treasure that is acquired centuries later and is obtained after hard work.
Spirituality is the knowledge in which man is free from his world.
and when he enters this spiritual world he realizes the difference between spirituality and this world."
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"Spirituality comes with a lot of benefits, it purifies the heart and set one on a life with good moral, and also gives peace."
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"Spirituality is all about connection. One thing I understand is that the spiritual controls the physical. Once your spirit is well established and has a well laid foundation/connection to something or someone, there is a natural balance in the physical especially in relation to that idol."
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"In the hectic of our daily life, sometimes it is difficult to realize or understand what spirituality is, for me spirituality is something fundamental for the life of each one, to grow as a person, as a human being and to be much more present in our day to day life."
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"Compared to Spirituality, Religion is an objective practice. Meaning that it usually involves the use of Scripture books, Sacred things, House of Worship and the rest of them. But then Spirituality is a journey. More of an inward journey. That is to say that, Religion is a materialistic practice while Spirituality is practiced in the soul."
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"I think spirituality should be looked at above what we see in or being taught in church or mosque.
Spirituality comes from within and can be self developed, you don't need a church or mosque or bible or Quran to be spiritual."
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"Sometimes only a drop of water can end the drought, therefore, we must transform ourselves into what we are: dew drops, drops of breath; sighs of joy, of faith, of hope. We are Love. Love is our way of Being."
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"We are energy contained in different bodies, which creates the illusion of separateness. separateness; which in the end is only** illusion, as it is that life is only earthly, reduced to "dust thou art and to dust thou shalt return, without dust thou art and unto dust, shalt thou return, without more."
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"i have discovered that life itself is spiritual, as such every thing about life that we can see has a spiritual dimension that must be engaged, so without the intelligences of the spirit, Man will not be able to effectively regulate his physical activities, so what ever you are doing to reconnect to the spiritual path, will or may help you add value to your well-being. Your Spiritual experience, and everyone’s spiritual path will definitely be unique, so never think that we must all go through the same path, like i always say to people and i will say it again, stick to your path, if your path is yielding the dimension of result that you so desire."
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"When you talk about spirituality , there must be faith.
No spirituality without Faith"
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"In short, people in the world, have different religions, different way of leading their lives, different faiths, but they have spirituality in their feelings."
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"I still strongly believe in a higher power(God),But understandings my spirituality has helped me connect better with him on a personal level. It has even given me a better sense of direction and purpose, greater happiness, and improved my relationship with everyone"
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"My definition of spirituality is reaching out to the unseen world beyond human physical reach and having a deep connection to God."
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"Spirituality, from my perspective, is the state of being where we find ourselves consciously connected with nature, in all its forms; internal and external, in the present moment."
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"Spirituality for me is energy, connection with oneself and with God and knowing oneself inwardly, for me spirituality is a lifestyle. Everything moves through energy therefore we are spiritual beings who are able to vibrate in that energetic world. The choice to nurture our spirituality is our own responsibility to have a more stable, healthier, peaceful, loving life, to find ourselves and the sense of truth. Being more spiritual beings we understand more what life means and to understand the world, also being spiritual helps us to understand better the human conditions."
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"Spirituality unveils the mask of ignorance and opens our heart to love. People who have been connected to this realm are always thought of to be too spiritual because they act differently from what the world expects from them."
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"Spirituality is having this belief that there is a being that is greater than my self, who is GOD. "
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"I'm a spirit being, that has a soul and lives in a body and for that I'm spiritual."
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"Spirituality is sometimes funny."
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"Spirituality is born from the fact that God created us in his image, or with the capacity to imitate his main qualities which are: love, justice, wisdom and power. "
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"I think of spirituality as an impulse that leads us to tune into the hearts of others. I believe that as we become more spiritual we become more sensitive to the needs of others and consequently we try to alleviate the sorrows that are within our reach."
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"With the passing of time I have become a very spiritual man, I am convinced that we are not only a biological body but that within us dwells something else, a powerful force, intangible, that moves us along the paths of good; from my way of believing I call it the Soul, others will give it a different name. And I see no problem with that, because from different perspectives there is the belief that we are something more than a bag of bones, muscles, tendons and viscera. I believe that in all human beings resides a Soul that drives them to seek the welfare of the other."
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"Spirituality to me is searching for a meaning to life, and this search can be finding something extra in life to cling to. Believing that there is a higher power, a higher Authority who is above everyone who we can see physically."
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"Spirituality is a journey, it's a process of striving to attain a higher understanding of extraterrestrial phenomena. "
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"Spirituality shows that there is something greater that connects Humans to each other and to the universe at large, which usually suggest that there is life after death and the finding of answers to questions about what life really is, the mysteries behind human existence and how connections between people work."
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"When we understand the deepest truths about the Universe we automatically become Spiritual beings. Once we understand that there is no you and i, that we truly are all one, then we start to act spiritually. What that means is that we start to act in a way that honours life, to nurture and to encourage. To help others and this world and to share love in all its forms. These traits are the pearls of Spirituality."
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"When we understand Spirituality, we also understand we are immortal and eternal. We are spirit, not the body. This knowing brings detachment. We are not our body, we are Sprit temporarily in this form to live and learn and understand what we really are, and to achieve greater perfection."
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"To discover who you really are, to see past the veils of illusion that so often surround us and the world we live in. Veils that we have put in place, by denying who we really are and in defense of who we are not."
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"Spirituality is nature, it is loving, it is believing beyond truth, beyond logic, beyond the real or the unreal, it is getting to know ourselves and uniting with our environment. It is intuitive, appreciative, loving, honest, unknowable, rare, inverse and even complicated, it is misunderstood, it is our own, it is what makes us incredible and unique."
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"Spirituality can be defined as the unseen things which are beyond humans Imagination, but it been reveal to humanity inorder to solved the world dying challenges and make life easier and better for everyone to lived."
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"So spirituality to me is the connection I have with the Holy Spirit that lives inside my human spirit and teaches me to become more like Jesus Christ. The more I become like Christ as a result of the teaching, guidance, and training from the Holy Spirit, the more I become spiritual."
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"Spirituality goes beyond religion.
spirituality is the person's spiritual self, which is what drives you, gives you energy, and influences you. I can say the feeling of your connection to something greater than ourselves."
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"We sat down under a palm tree taking in the cool breeze as we listened to the birds chirping while drinking palm wine. Just like every other evening spent in the village, this moment drew us closer to the beauties of mother nature and farther from the noisome pestilence of life that needed to be silenced."
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"To me, Spirituality means being connected with the invisible (God, Universe, spirit guides, angels or whatever one believes in), being connected to inner/higher self and being connected to the world around us, Mother Nature, other human beings… "
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"For one to be tag a spiritual person, it means the person has the ability to see beyond the physical. Some people have the gift to see beyond material things, and see what others can not see with their mere eyes. That is what spirituality means to me."
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"Spirituality is the living faith that we carry inside, with unlimited love and firm hope to believe, love, give and receive sincerely."
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"spirituality means mightier and powerful, one who committed himself into spirit world would see more a far than one who see within the boundaries of our spheres we lived (earth)."
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"I see the word spirituality as the act of been in a holy state of mind just like working hand in hand with holiness. So spirituality is just like the medium which will make one be able to connect the mind with the heavenly body. It is not of the physical realm but the soul which can make one have a greater Access to God than the body because the body is just a dirt and can connect with the heavenly ones."

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS

So I would like to offer my congratulations to the following six people for winning a $10 award each! It is so hard to choose each week, but your posts had that something special in them.

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