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These 6 words represent fundamental qualities of spiritual LIFE and spiritual PEOPLE. Click on any word for a detailed definition of the selected quality, and reflect on its meanings. Then, consider its application in life. This can help you develop your chosen quality.
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Words cannot describe the experience of Unity, which infinitely exceeds rapture. Unity is the goal of all seeking. It is spiritual REALITY! Unity-realization heals many wounds at once: the physical cramp of smallness; the emotional pain of loneliness; the psychological strain of distance and difference from others, and from all of life; and the spiritual sorrow of separation from God.
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AT ONE: A state in which distance, difference, and separation are NOT your primary focus -- and in which for you, indeed AS you, sameness IS.
Related: identified with, non-othering, resonating with, in affinity, close, empathetic
Opposite: distant, alienated, aloof, isolated, othering, separated, Narcissistic, divisive, discordant, oppositional, contentious, hostile
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LOVING: For the TRUE benefit and well-being of the beloved.
Related: warm, warmhearted, tender, embracing, compassionate, caring, sympathetic, supportive
Opposite: indifferent, unloving, cool, uncaring, unsympathetic, unfriendly, insensitive, unsupportive, self-centered, cold, callous, hurtful, conflictual, spiteful, hateful
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EXPANDED: Big, embracing, incorporating; free of smallness.
Related: bridging, towards, enveloping, God-connected, ego-transcending, full, Self-sufficient
Opposite: introverted, contracted, self-concerned, compressed, untowards, egotistical, self-obsessed, self-centered
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ATTUNED: Keenly aware of and tuned in to.
Related: attentive, context-sensitive, considerate, intuitive
Opposite: thoughtless, out of it, myopic, mental, irrelevant, insensitive, inconsiderate, inattentive, heedless, out of touch, tactless, inhumane
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PLUGGED IN: Involved and invested enough to be personally implicated.
Related: involved, implicated, invested, intimate, belonging, interdependent, connected
Opposite: uninvolved, disconnected, ruggedly independent, thick-skinned, impervious, indifferent, unwilling to be vulnerable, oblivious, self-protective, avoiding, in denial
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