One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive.
Do you become spiritual by performing ceremonies and rituals…? Ceremonies and rituals sometimes give a certain sensation, so-called uplift. But they are repetitious, and every sensation that is repeated soon wearies of itself.
Science tells theology about the structure and history of the universe and its evolutionary nature. Religious insight can set the laws of nature in a more profound context of understanding, so that their deep order, rational beauty and anthropic fine-tuning become intelligible.
Those who are pure in heart achieve God-consciousness; they are truly and actually aware of God at the centre of their being.

