Spirituality Welcomes The Anxious Individual

[Conscious Encounters]

I feel that the spiritual path is welcoming for anxious individuals. So much so that the majority of people who find spirituality help them, were at the time of discovering it, going through some sort of anxiety. 

What do you guys think? If this is so, then couldn't the pool of spiritual knowledge be greatly fed from anxious beliefs systems?

I just can't help but feel that spirituality often seems like an escape for the anxious individual.

 

What are your thoughts? 

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Your argument works both ways.  A highly confident, happy person is deeply anxious.  They just don't know it because they are so identified with their ego.

The ego is terrified, so it makes up an intricate, convenient story which it lives by at all costs, putting itself under huge pressure to live up to and surpass others expectations.  It becomes hugely hostile against the questioning of it's story. 

The egoic world is also an escape for the anxious person.