I love your focus on gratitude. Excellent piece and a good read.

Very interesting perspective and I get your thesis about fear, but I don't quite agree. The spiritual person is fearless and embraces uncertainty. Fear has become what religion is based on and as a way to control their members.

I wrote a poem many months ago about the difference between materialists and spiritualists.

It's called Pity the Fools, Tanka ode to odiferous misanthropic materialists

"Handcuffed by science

Minds of materialists

Suffocate on proof

Spiritualists thriving

Embracing uncertainty"

The decoder ring can be found here https://medium.com/know-thyself-heal-thyself/pity-the-fools-c8c076c23015

You and your readers may enjoy my Illumination Curated piece last week that marries spirituality and philosophy, and emotional intelligence as well. https://medium.com/illumination-curated/marriage-of-philosophy-and-spirituality-742dc1d639f6