Spiritual growth is a growth in conscious knowledge.
It is not just an additional accumulation of thoughts and ideas.
To consciously grow is to expand our conscious realizations of life and ourselves.
Our awakening is an expansion of our consciousness beyond the mind and into intuitive feelings.
Physical bodies limit our ability to experience life consciously.
Beyond our bodies and in particular our minds there is no limit to what we are and what we can experience.
That is what spiritual growth actually is. It is conscious knowledge beyond our mind.
Robert.
That is something I have often wondered about. Is this what the Buddhists mean by being 'awake'?