Do not attempt to
explain spiritual things to a natural mind.
I believe that it is not possible to
explain spiritual things to people who do not believe.
Not exact matches
and while scientists take on a technical arrogance of thinking that through the power of their own intellect, they can know and
explain all
things, not knowing how blind they are to the unseen world; religionists on the other hand do have a corresponding
spiritual arrogance.
Difficult for me to
explain since that is a
spiritual thing but can say following for a start; Leave behind that I was born and brought up in a very moderate Arab Muslim family.
It is utterly impossible to
explain things which are
spiritual to people who do not have God's Spirit living within them.
I've also interviewed Christian ministers, a rabbi, a imam and a Buddhist scholar about the significance of their
spiritual homes, pressing them to
explain how they reconcile their sometimes opulent houses of worship with the fact that religion is ultimately about transcending worldly
things.
In Patañjali's Yoga Sutras it is
explained that there are three basic types of
spiritual seekers — mild, medium, and intense — and that within each of these categories are three subcategories: mildly - mild, medium - mild, intensely - mild; mildly - medium, medium - medium, intensely - medium; mildly - intense, medium - intense, and intensely - intense.5 In other words, there are roughly nine levels of
spiritual seekers, and to situate ourselves correctly on this spectrum is not an easy
thing.