I find it sad that "spirituality" seems to cause many people so much pain.
I wasn't raised religious. Or, maybe I should say that I was raised scientific. I ended up somewhere in the middle, though. But I always see spirituality in a positive light - something that comforts me, not something that makes me feel guilty. I guess that's how it is when we are only accountable to ourselves in this reguard, and not everyone is born into a tradition that affords them this freedom.
To me, to be spiritual means that you matter. You matter to God, or the universe, etc. You are significant - you aren't just another statistic; and that is comforting. It also means that there is more to life, and death, than what we can see with the naked eye. For example, we know, scientificaaly, that nothing really dies. Energy is simply redistributed - that's almost proof of life after death or reincarnation or however you want to look a it.
Anyone out there have a positive relationship with spirituality???