What is Spirituality?

Spirituality is a process that involves the refining and raising
of the energy of the personality.
The disadvantages of bringing the intellect into spirituality
are the dangers of reducing spirituality to intellectualism
and to a process of amassing knowledge, and forgetting
that it is what we can make ourselves through applying 
 this knowledge which entitles this process to be described
as spirituality. Delusion is an ever present danger when we
are in touch with intoxicating ideas and out of touch with
ourselves.
We can know about enlightenment, understand the energetic
process involved in opening the head centres, and see the
correspondence between this process in man and that of the
planet, but this knowledge does not make us enlightened,
anymore than understanding the role of love and kindness
in raising vibration makes us kind and loving people.
So much of our suffering and illness comes from our sheer
ignorance of the power of the spoken word. Worthless
verbiage, which fills lives with toxins and ugliness goes out into
the ether via phones and the Internet to be toxins in the lives of
others. The throat centre is linked to the form-building sacral
centre and we create with words. The stronger the throat centres
the more enduring the form that it creates. We are intellectually
capable of understanding this now – by courtesy of our
developed throat centres. But we need explanations that focus
upon energies, and are free from the emotive terminology of
devotionalism. Sin or energetic self-harm? They amount to the
same thing, but they are not heard in the same way.
Controlling thought and speech forms would lift the vibration.
      - Suzanne Rough, DK Foundation.