What Is Human Nature in Relation to Spiritual Nature?

ByMartyn

What is human nature in relation to spiritual nature?

Is our spiritual nature in fact the fulfilment of our human nature? Isn’t that what the saints and sages have been telling us all this time? That we have an innate divine potential that represents the fruition of our humanity.

So for all our monstrous capacities: our barbarism, cruelty, hatred, and even evil itself — these are the stumblings in the development and unfoldment of our spiritual nature.

Call it spiritual optimism if you like. I see it as the inevitable trajectory of life towards unity.

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