It's also a spiritual difference.
This bull stated that there was to be no difference between the spiritual rewards of the different crusaders.
In Hindu art, there is an immediate difference between the spiritual (the divine) and nature, but the spiritual remains abstract and indeterminate in itself and so can be brought to mind only through images of natural things (unnaturally distorted).
It wasn't until my spiritual teacher, John-Roger, helped me understand the difference between the underlying spiritual essence of who people are and what they do that I began to experience increasing ease and grace in my life.
In the last stage of pre-art, the difference between the spiritual and the natural (or sensuous) is taken to its limit: the spiritual element (the "meaning") and the sensuous element (the "shape" or "image") are now completely independent of, and external to, one another.
A dualistic understanding of what it is to be human, which assumes an essential difference between the spiritual and the material-bodily sides of human existence, necessarily leads to the idea of the immortality of the soul.
The difference between the spiritual and the natural means that the spiritual i.e., the divine cannot be understood (as in Persia) to be simply identical with some immediately given aspect of nature.
Hindu art marks the difference between the spiritual (or divine) and the merely natural by extending, exaggerating and distorting the natural forms in which the divine is imagined to be present.
The difference between a Spiritual Warrior and a lot of other people who wander around waiting for success, or love, or abundance to happen to them is that the Spiritual Warrior acts, not reacts.
One fascinating difference between slaves' spirituals and serfs' sacred folk songs is that while American slaves often sang about escape or emancipation, Russian serfs rarely did.
