In order for your spiritual practice to be truly authentic, you can’t compartmentalize it. You can’t be a spiritual person for an hour each weekend and then put that part of yourself on hold when you go to work on Monday morning. An intelligent spiritual practice is a holistic one. It integrates with all parts of your life, including your career, your finances, your health, and your relationships.
According to the principles of truth, love, and power, the highest level of spiritual attainment would be perfect alignment with those principles, which implies perfect intelligence. The ultimate ideal of any sound spiritual path is to be infinitely truthful, infinitely loving, and infinitely powerful. By extension, this also requires infinite oneness, infinite authority, and infinite courage. The ultimate spiritual pursuit is to strive to live congruently with all of these.
Since the principles of truth, love, and power are universal, a proper spiritual practice must be universal as well. This means that even when you’re doing your taxes, your spiritual beliefs must be applicable to the task at hand. If you face any situation in life where your views can’t be applied, then they aren’t universal, which means they can’t be aligned with truth, love, and power. Even if you think about something as mundane as mowing your lawn, you can use the values of truth, love, and power to help guide you. Any other universal spiritual principles must satisfy the same criteria.
* Source: Personal Development for Smart People by Steve Pavlina