Actually if you just believe in God you can’t live a spiritual life.
We can’t enter spirituality based on belief because beliefs are not based on what spirituality actually is; they’re fantasies of how we’d like it to be without doing anything to find out what it is. How do you know when you’re in a place? Only by the sensation you have within your own experience. If you go by anything else, then you don’t actually live there, - you just live as though you live there, as though there’s an all-inclusive, loving force. Spirituality isn’t vague or abstract.
A person begins with seeking the ordinary necessities of food and shelter. When one feels that one needs more than this, then this person may progress to a desire for money. When money is no longer sufficient, so may begin the search for fame or status, and if one needs more than this, then one searches through all kinds of higher forms of pleasure: art, music, philosophy, sciences, and so on, which characterize the next stage of desire, the desire for knowledge. The desire to find meaning in life, or what Kabbalists call “the desire for spirituality,” appears in the final stage.
Nowadays the whole world is facing a very difficult period of crisis. In the past, whenever there was a crisis, it would be replaced by another crisis. If there was an economic crisis, it was replaced by a spiritual one. If it wasn’t a spiritual crisis, then it turned into a cultural one; and if not cultural, then technological. They somehow kept replacing one another, and thus humanity went on evolving.
But today, we’ve reached a point where no matter what kind of experts we talk to—philosophers, physicists, humanists, scientists, sociologists—all come to a screeching halt in their development. They’re completely lacking in the ability to envision the right path to follow. They’re unable to see or understand, and they feel unable to develop further.
It is possible to say that man is like a “black box” which feels and understands and receives only that which comes from outside . In all of our investigations, we are limited by our five senses. And all of the instruments which we build, and which are to be built in the future, do not escape the limitations of our five senses. They merely widen the boundaries of our senses.
This is because we are never able to imagine what our senses lack. Namely, what other additional sense we need in order to recognize the true reality around us. We feel no lack for this, as we feel no lack of a sixth finger on our hands. That for which we feel no lack, can never be something to which we would come to request. Therefore, all of the investigations of our world are only according to our five senses, and we can never begin to see and feel and understand what is beyond our senses. These are the limitations of our conceptions.