Spiritual Qualities

We often look for quality in what we acquire and bring into our lives to improve our human experience. 

A spiritual quality is what is good in life.

A spiritual idea is an expression of a spiritual quality that brings good to life.

While we enjoy the spiritual qualities of peace, assurance, gratitude and love in our lives, we often do not know where to find them. However we can become aware that spiritual qualities exist, appreciate their value, seek to express them in our lives and recognize their expression throughout the world. Then spiritual qualities become fundamental to our life. This is the substance of The Spiritual View.

Spiritual qualities are only valuable when expressed in life. For example, the concept of peace is not beneficial until it is expressed.

Here are definitions of some spiritual qualities and their benefits: 

Assurance is knowing that what we really need is always available. It makes it possible to give up wanting.

Clarity is seeing what is needed without the bias of personal and conditional thoughts. Clarity replaces the mental effort and uncertainty of believing and having opinions.

Creativity is the unique expression of spiritual qualities. Interest in and receptivity to spiritual qualities gives us ideas which we can manifest. 

Compassion is understanding that there is a lack of understanding. It is the awareness that only ignorance is to blame. This relieves us from blaming ourselves and others. It replaces and heals unresolved grievances from the past.

Freedom is knowing the truth. This liberates us from believing personal opinion and speculation. 

Gratitude is seeing and appreciating the good in life that already is. Gratitude is the door to joy.

Harmony is healthy order, with everything spontane­ously working together for good. When we value harmony we are relieved from trying to make things happen the way we think they should.

Health is wholeness, the free expression of the good of spiritual qualities. Seeing health as a spiritual quality frees us from being consumed with seeking physical and mental health.

Humility is the awareness that we do not have the power to create good. Humility allows peace, order, harmony, gratitude and assurance to be expressed in our human experience, remarkably without doing anything. There is no effort and no mental stress from thoughts of what should or should not be.

Humor is light-hearted acknowledgement of the limits and error of our personal thoughts once we see the value of spiritual ideas. With humor we no longer take seriously thoughts about ourselves and others.

Intelligence is receptivity to spiritual ideas that are expressed clearly and beneficially in our lives. It relieves the effort of trying to figure something out with our personal thoughts.

Joy is the free expression of gratitude without self-concern. It is a good alternative to the killjoy of the seriousness of self-centeredness.

Love is non-personal, non-conditional goodwill. It relieves us from the difficulties of personal and conditional love. The awareness of this spiritual quality of love makes it possible to be genuinely loving.

Peace is not wanting anything. Peace replaces the anxiety of thinking things should be different.

Responsiveness is the spontaneous expression of good meeting all needs. When this occurs everything is up­lifted.

Truth is that which is self-evident, immutable and eternal. Nothing in human experience can produce it, yet it can be discovered and understood.

Usefulness is the response to the need for spiritual qualities in the moment. Work becomes useful activity that is a joy and is no longer seen as burdensome. 

Wholeness is awareness that nothing is needed other than the good of spiritual qualities. This abolishes the experience of separateness.

The expression of spiritual qualities is the good of life.