Where do you get your spiritual fulfillment?

[Datura]

Do you go to church? Pray? Meditate? Read literature? Consume hallucinogenic organisms that are probably illegal in most of the developed world?

I'm curious to see how TCoD members develop their spiritual side. Even atheists and those who don't consider themselves spiritual—surely you must have some sort of penchant for philosophy, or the role of religions in culture, or something like that!

So please share as much as you're comfortable sharing!

 

[Tailsy]

i just take my glasses off and it's like the rapture's just happened every time!

 

[Zero Moment]

I observe small, colorful horses.

 

[Flora]

I pray sometimes; I generally try to avoid church unless it's Christmas or Easter or a school thing or something since I don't believe that just because some guy who split open the sea heard from God that we should all chill out on Sundays we should all be forced to sit through an hour of prayer that no one pays attention to.

 

[Blastoise Fortooate]

Churches make me feel vaguely uncomfortable/bored most of the time and so I do not attend one. I am not religious generally, but I have no problem with people who are as long as they aren't jerks about it!
I pray every night but that's mostly out of habit; the way I figure it, thanking someone I call God every night for the stuff that I appreciate having in my life helps keep things in perspective.
I think it would be nice if I didn't stop being around after I die but I'm not invested in any ideas about what might happen instead. Oblivion scares me!

More on topic, I learn stuff and make stuff. It makes me feel good about myself and knowing that other people are doing stuff to improve the world makes me feel better about the state of things. I also shop at flea markets and wander around the old bookshops therein to unwind!

 

[shy ♡]

I don't understand what spiritual fulfillment is.

 

[ultraviolet]

I don't understand what spiritual fulfillment is.

yeah tbh I'm not getting this either. :B

 

[Spoon]

I'm taking spiritual fulfillment here as comfort with self and acceptance of death or mental well-being, at least. Correct me if you meant something else.

For me, I try to be curious and understand why people do things. I find it's a great way to review why I think things and challenge them. I try not fretting over things and not be a jerk. I've come to terms as well as I can that eventually I won't be around forever and hey, I should have fun and be helpful while I'm still around.

 

[Blastoise Fortooate]

I don't understand what spiritual fulfillment is.

Yeah, when I first went to reply to this thread the beginning of my post was, according to Lazarus, "Vague question, but here goes!"

I took it to mean 'what gives you contentment beyond physical satiety' but that's still pretty vague and not what Datura probably meant.

 

[Zero Moment]

I'm taking spiritual fulfillment here as comfort with self and acceptance of death or mental well-being, at least. Correct me if you meant something else.

For me, I try to be curious and understand why people do things. I find it's a great way to review why I think things and challenge them. I try not fretting over things and not be a jerk. I've come to terms as well as I can that eventually I won't be around forever and hey, I should have fun and be helpful while I'm still around.

Oh, man, I thought that you meant, like, religious stuff when you said that, hence the joke answer.

The real answer, however, is exactly the same. Fucking ponies, man.

 

[Superbird]

Doing the right thing, I think. Or perhaps reading the bible.

 

[I liek Squirtles]

I go to church, and actually listen to the sermons.

 

[Momo(th)]

I meditate. Just look at the prayer in my signature.

 

[Chief Zackrai]

I like to think the universe is a giant, cancer-addled frog.

Yeah, I would have to say the closest thing I've experienced to what I think you're asking would have to be doing the right thing. Like turning a watch you found under your hotel bed, or telling the truth about something. It's liberating, knowing that you've done the right thing. To me, at least.

 

[Music Dragon]

I contemplate the vastness of the universe, I sail the sea of nothingness, I dip my feet in the ink that shatters eyes, and, when all else fails, I jerk off.

 

[Tarvos]

I do what I think is right.

 

[Minish]

I do some research, or just think!

 

[Aisling]

I'm finding this surprisingly hard to articulate for some reason.

I guess what I do is watch movies that make me feel a lot of emotions, look at art, or listen to music that makes me remember things I don't want to forget. I think about people I care about, and how lucky I am that they became a part of my life. Sometimes I look at the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field and attempt to comprehend just how big the universe is. Things that make me feel powerful emotions, even if they're not necessarily happy ones.

 

[Zexion]

Honestly, if it is as Spoon described it, I pray. Not going into details J.I.C. I get another infraction.

 

[Nanabshuckle8]

Hmm, mostly I ponder great philosophical questions, think about how huge this universe is, how wonderful the fact that life arose here is and so on. Aaaand multiverse theory time! Sometimes I forget that I exist. No, really. It's like when I'm really into a movie and just experiencing the things on that monitor that I just zone out of my own existance. Then I realise it and just get amazed at the fact that my mind actually is real, and that I live and exist.
Today I actually thought of something: If the multiverse theory is true, doesn't that mean that I was pretty much destined to be? If every possibility is supposed to be possible, if every version exists, wouldn't that mean that my mind, my personality, my self was bound to exist somewhere? Somehow that lessens my being even further...

Anyone else get these thoughts? Otherwise I tend to think about the future, and how I wish to fight for mankind to reach a type 1 civilization, how I will die at peace knowing that these small formations of carbon, this incredibly small, meaningless speck of dust in the vast universe actually may reach the technology to be of some importance ( you know, after reaching it, otherwise I'd feel slightly less hopeful)