Every human being is longing to be spiritual
If you look at the human experience, everything that human beings know right now happens to them because they see, hear, smell, taste and touch. What you can gather through these five senses is bound to be physical, so your experience of life right now is limited to the physical. If you take yourself as an example, what is physical in you – the body that you carry – is essentially something that you accumulated and gathered. What you gather can be yours but it can never be you. What you call as body or what you experience as “myself ” right now, is an accumulation of breakfast, lunch and dinner – it is the food that you have eaten. It is just a piece of the planet.
Even your mind and your emotions are physical. Today, your thought and your emotion can be measured on machines, which means they have a physical basis. So, your body which is an accumulation of food, and your mind which is an accumulation of impressions and information, if you have to gather all this, there must be something more fundamental. Whatever that is, it is beyond the physical.
If your experience of life transcends the limitations of physicality, then we say you are spiritual. Spirituality does not mean that you have to believe something or that you have a philosophy or something else. Essentially, spirituality means you have enhanced your basic perception beyond the limitations of the physical. Only if you experience a dimension beyond the physical can you truly be free from the limitations of what you are right now.
Every human being is longing to be something more than whatever he may be right now. Even if you become the king of the planet, you will still look at the stars because the very nature of being human is such. There is something within you which does not like boundaries.
The moment you feel the boundary, however big the boundary is, you want to go beyond that. So, there is something within you which is seeking to become boundless, which is constantly longing to become spiritual. Every human being is longing to be spiritual. The choice is only whether you find expression to this longing in a conscious manner or an unconscious manner.