Any Spiritual Advantages

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Advantages on spirituality?

If you mean religion, in my case, no. Even at youth, I always feel that when I'm praying, I'm doing it wrong or rather awkward.
If it has something to do with complete submission (of anything, a creed, a 'law', or particularly a god worship), that would confuse me more judging from what I kept seeing from everyone else's actions. I don't get 'faith'.
As far as I know, there's so many misinterpreted and altered stuffs from the original. And I think some or most of them are exploited for a certain gain or control... Either way, I couldn't understand it.
As for the fads of beliefs, I don't get them either except on a book rule and that's it. I'm not a skeptic or an anti-theist, just not enough opinions to either 'sides'. XD And extremists loves to hijack beliefs.

And spirituality itself... I don't know. I don't know if I'm spiritual or not spiritual at all. I couldn't call or proclaim myself one either as I realized it. This is just one of many things I cannot 'assess'. I don't know if this has something to do of state of being or actions or both. XD Yes, I'm ignorant.

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Indirectly. I suspect that there's a strong link between my autism and my love of and facility with mathematics. This in turn has had an enormous impact on how I look at and think of spirituality and religions.

I am incapable of taking seriously those who like to compare religion and opium in the modern day. It was clever when Marx said it, but it's out of date by the approximately twenty quintillion cycles of the dialectic that've happened since.

Spirituality and religion have been a special interest of mine for a long time. I reject the cosmology of Christianity and all of the Abrahamic religions. My hatred of humanity and the inherent injustice that is part of reality makes the idea of a human-like God seem ridiculous to me. If God is the creator, I don't see how God can be loving, caring, or good. Life is too cruel and indifferent to the fate of individual sentient beings. I love Taoism because of the cosmology that physics of the 20th century is only beginning to verify. I still don't understand how the Ancient Chinese can understand all of that stuff. I don't buy into Taoist morality completely however. I believe there are times when a person should step in and try to affect change. In fact, I believe human beings are the closest thing to a god that exists on earth. It is our responsibility, because we have the power, to try to improve life for our fellow humans and take care of nature (not rape the land so that resources can be turned into money). If I had to choose one religion, it would probably be Buddhism. My personal experience with mindfulness meditation has proven to me that only my internal mental state determines how I feel and the quality of my life. Outside events are irrelevant. It is how I interpret those events. If I try my best to practice acceptance no matter what situation I am in, I can experience happiness and be of optimum usefulness to myself and my fellow creatures.