What is Spiritual Study, and Why is It Important?

One of the five core spiritual practices at our Center is Spiritual Study. What is this practice all about? There are a couple different aspects of this practice. First, it is the simple act of gaining knowledge of how our universe works--and in our teaching specifically, gaining knowledge of how our consciousness operates in the world. So, we can read books like the Science of Mind, take classes at the Center , and we can listen to the Sunday talks for nuggets of wisdom. When we examine spiritual study a little deeper, though, we see that there is also, at the root of our practice, one very important aspect we want to be sure we haven't left out: our curiosity . That curiosity fuels every single act of spiritual study, and so it becomes important when we are engaging in this practice to recognize this relationship, and to make sure we are cultivating our inner curiosity just as much as we are gaining new information. If we aren't in that open feeling of curios...