The religious concept of spirituality tells us that spirituality is the denial of the flesh. A dispirited being is one who is empty, who has no energy to go on living, whose fires of passion have been quenched. Thus, spirit is obviously the totality of the passions and their energies.
Passions have their basis in the desire of the flesh.
The denial of the flesh is the denial of the passions and hence the denial of the spirit . The religious call to deny the flesh must always become a call to deny the entire self, a call to make oneself not into a spiritual being, but into nothing . It is a call to self-annihilation. God is said to be absolute spirit, and yet totally without flesh. This is impossible.