For the most part I agree with you.

I don’t resent spirituality, but I do tend to resent religion. I believe religion eventually corrupts all true spiritualities through the forces of social coercion and just what happens with power dynamics.

True spirituality is work. The religious can just coast along with the crowd, which is what allows them to fall away from the spiritual beginnings of their religion.

Or, you know, participate in an insurrection as a religious zealot for Christianity never realizing doing so made you a follower of the betrayer, Judas Iscariot, rather than a follower of their messiah, Jesus the Nazarene. That’s what religion does to spirituality.

True spirituality will give one a yearning for the things you listed and keep those things in balance. It uplifts the individual and the society.

You can also have deep and meaningful spirituality without the belief in God. Practitioners of the Left Hand Path may work with deities and the like, but they can think of them as either actual entities or aspects of the ego or human psyche. If they think of them as actual entities they do not worship them. The goal is not to earn a ticket or place in heaven under the thumb of a deity but to evolve one’s consciousness to the point where you ascend at death and become a divine being.

Good thoughts. Thanks for sharing. 👍