The Essentials of Spirituality

The Essentials of Spirituality is a classic religious philosophy text on the subject of spiritual life by the German-American philosopher, Felix Adler. The spiritual life may be described by its characteristic marks of serenity, a certain inwardness, a measure of saintliness. By the latter we are not to understand merely the aspiration after virtue or after a lofty ideal, still pursued and still eluding, but to a certain extent the embodiment of this ideal in the life--virtue become a normal experience like the inhalation and exhalation of breath