spiritual insight

Inner divine knowing

Spiritual insight is understanding that seems to arise from beyond ordinary perception or reasoning—a sudden clarity about life's meaning, one's purpose, or the nature of existence.

The term implies wisdom gained through meditation, religious experience, or moments of profound awareness rather than intellectual analysis: The retreat gave her spiritual insight she'd been seeking for years.

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type of understanding

spiritual insightbook learning

Knowledge from study

scientific reasoning · worldly wisdom · carnal knowledge · empirical observation · logical deduction

clarity of perception

spiritual insightspiritual darkness

State of profound disconnection

ignorance · delusion · benightedness · confusion · obliviousness

orientation to the sacred

spiritual insightmaterialism

Prioritizing goods over spirit

worldliness · skepticism · cynicism · closed-mindedness · hardness of heart

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