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people are a mix of the spiritual world and the physical world.
most people see this as a balancing act in that you must pick one if you want to get very good at it,

a popular example is:
that god tells you that if you devote your life to him, he will give you everything the spiritual world has to offer.
Satan also tells you that if you devote your life to him, he will give you everything that this physical world has to offer.

so most people think about this and either go with one or the other,
some people think that it is a trade off of the 2 of them, and they take half of one and half of the other in order to have balance.

the real answer is that neither one gets in the way of the other,
you can choose 2 of them,
just like you can choose to be a fan of 2 sports teams, nothing is stopping you.

if you look at old spiritual teachings you will see this in action,
the spiritual people would defend themselves physically,

now most spiritual people tell you that you have to be a victim and totally deny the physical world in order to be spiritual. they are wrong.

this idea that you have to be helpless physically in order to advance spiritually is usually offered by people that have lost the physical battles and are just trying a new method to win by appealing to people's emotions

if you deal with topics physically and spiritually at the same time, there is not much that will stop you.