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The most accurate description of spirituality is change.
“What does change have to do with spirituality?” you ask.
A spiritual phenomena is undefinable in physical terms, and is therefore not bound to any particular form of existence; beacuse if it has to remain in a specific form then it is bound to a specific definition, thus compromising it's spirituality.
Therefore, the plant, which grows and changes, is more spiritual then the the stone, which does not change at all. The plant, however, is rooted in a specific place from which it can't break away. Thus the animal, which roams the earth freely, is more spiritual the the plant. And nothing in this world is more spiritual then the person who transcends himself to speak to another person.
It follows, therefore, that the act of changing, not being bound by your previous state of being, is the ultimate expression of one's spirituality-boundlessness.
[This explains why the human being is described in Jewish literature as “speaker”, not “thinker”; true, the thinker may feels spiritual beacuse he is breaking loose of his state of being and allowing his mind to roam freely; true freedom, however, is connecting to another person, breaking out of the most difficult bondage to escape, the bondage to the self.]
(Leku"s Yisro 6:1)
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