What is a spiritual life?

Is this an easy question? What actually is the meaning of "Spiritual". I have a very simple definition, but because I like to write not only out of my head, but something based of fact, what people can comprehend, I went to Wikipedia and to the Wiktionary. I grew up in a post war German which was basically free of English (at least for the average people). By browsing the Wiktionary looking for the word Spiritual I came across the religious songs basically of black American making. I am sure at least the last 10 years, probably longer, I had completely forgotten about it.
It was somehow an amazing experience. It was like browsing an old photo album and you find a picture that once meant a lot, but you had forgotten about it.
For many years I had observes it was a rare word. Then some groups like Eckankar  and others used it and more and more the word found its way back into the main stream and actually - on my impression - replaced the word religion/religious.
Let me give you my definition of spiritual: Spiritual refers to the invisible side of life, the force behind it.
For me it is a force maybe only a matrix that exists in the lives of every person, but at the same time is very personal and differs from person to person. I like to think that this spiritual matrix is based on the individual karma.

You might say say: Well, nice " And?"
Did you ever wonder why certain things in your life did not turn out as planned? Did you ever feel that you had to do a certain action, or maybe say a certain word, but you could not? Like you want to apologize to a certain person or say "I love you" to another? Live changing moment, but somehow, something held you back. Made you to stay mute, made you be an observer of an action and at the same time a puppet on the strings?
[Did you ever have such a moment? Where you were actor and observer? If so, did you ever wonder how it could be? ]
Maybe, maybe it would be sufficient to use the term karma. But maybe I am not good enough with words. Actually while writing this, I also do a lot of thinking. And this writing process now is at least as much for me it it might be for you.
I cherished the Term "Spiritual" and now in the first step I had to broaden its meaning and now, only minutes later, by linking it directly with karma, almost make it obsolete.
On one side, this makes me a little sad, like loosing something precious, but from a spiritual point of view I also see that now I can let go of something I no longer need on my journey home to God, something I have outgrown.
Maybe you too have outgrown words or images, once precious to you, but now only are a burden, often an invisible one, on your journey home to God.

We get what we are ready to receive

Sorry no fantastic adventures lately. Should I be sad?
Well it makes me wonder when I have an active cycle with numerous oob experiences which are  followed by a calm time.
But lets face it, at least we souls in a body closer to replacement than others, especially people who work in a calmer and not to hectic environment, we feel exhausted if we travel to a big town and have lots of people and noise around us. We feel exhausted after the journey. For sure I do, and I even would call myself a city dweller.
So, when I come home in the evening, I normally go to bed soon and sleep like a log.
So comparing it to my inner experience, it can be more or less the same, after an activity a rest period is normal.
If you think that there is no spiritual growth during this rest periods you might overlook the experiences that are not so dramatic.
I liked it when Sri Harold Klemp made me aware that life runs in cyles. Mine does and at time the cyles are not to long, sometimes especially the ones I do not fancy to much, seem to last far to long.
Like many of you out there, I am trained to use my creativity. Or to use different words, not many of this cycles are cycles of abundance in money.

As you know I live in the Philippines which has very favorable conditions for loitering and now is considered a developing country (some time back it was one of the tiger states, a group of fast growing economies in South east Asia)
I spend most of my life in Germany and hence seeing poverty still attracts my attention. I mean I think about.
The spiritual world are not black and white only (neither is this world) meaning what I write here is only one of the many facets.
It is easier to be poor than to be rich (remember you are born into a rich or a poor family. And as an Eckist  better as Soul, we have a saying in it.) So why are so many people born poor?
Because it is easier!
You think there is not enough wealth for all who are poor?
As soul we are the ultimate creators, hence we could create a world full of economies like Germany, Swiss, Singapore or even Monaco.
Many countries on this planet have a lottery like 6 out of 49 or similar, which basically every week creates a millionaire. If you look at the lucky winners after some time, a huge percentage no longer has money.
Now I am at the second point I want to stress:
We only can have what we are ready to receive or perceive?
I am poor because I am not ready to accept the riches!
If you are one of this people who urgently need money, ask yourself: What do I miss, to have what I need!?
I remember years back me and my neighbor were walking through the spring. He with his girlfriend, I with mine. I was a freelancer, he was an artist, all four of us was a certain shortage in common. I remember how he and his girlfriend were discussing how to imagine to have riches. Where are the hinges, what are the tricks, How can you truly think you are rich if you do not even have money to buy food. Not a single moment did we think that WE ARE THE PROBLEM. It is not God who is not willing to give us, it is US who are not ready to receive.