It seems to me that most people think spirituality is about being good, moral, pure, kind, gentle and helpful. I don't believe that at all, because all of those qualities exist as one pole of a duality, and I don't believe that spirit lives in the world of duality. Rather, I believe that if there is spirit, then spirit has to be transcendent.
It is obvious that nothing in the world of duality can be infinite, omnipotent or omniscient, so a belief in spirit (or God) who has all of these qualities is inconsistent with a belief that "God is good". I don't believe that God is good. God must transcend the good-bad duality.
If God is transcendental, then any conception of God's nature will be a wrong conception. So the first line of the Tao Teh Ching says, "That Tao which can be spoken of is not the true Tao". And the Muslims forbid images of God and the Jews forbid speaking God's name and Moses got pretty pissed off about that golden calf, if I remember correctly.
A false belief that my essential nature is "in the world" of duality is the core essential mistake from which all of my suffering springs. The belief in the primacy of duality is the original sin. Remember that Adam and Eve "ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" (they fell into the duality trap), and that right there was the end of the good times.
Therefore, the job of a spiritual practitioner is to negate the false belief that duality is the fundamental fabric of existence. And that negation is the spiritual practitioner's only job. Forget about saving the world... that's a mission dreamed up by a mind caught in the duality trap.
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