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Spirituality

Traditionally, spirituality refers to a religious process of re-formation which "aims to recover the original shape of man," oriented at "the image of God" as exemplified by the founders and sacred texts of the religions of the world. In modern times the emphasis is on subjective experience of a sacred dimension and the "deepest values and meanings by which people live," often in a context separate from organized religious institutions. Modern systems of spirituality may include a belief in a supernatural (beyond the known and observable) realm, personal growth, a quest for an ultimate or sacred meaning, religious experience, or an encounter with one's own "inner dimension."

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The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

Cicero, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 562.

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Western civilisation, with its own spirituality, has permeated all corners of the earth. My thesis is that this is the spirituality of money.

Ulrich Duchrow, "Spirituality for democracy and social cohesion versus the spirituality of money," Verbum et Ecclesia 35(3)

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I, at any rate, acknowledge only one master, not forty-five million two-legged sheep, or two thousand million, but simply and absolutely the spirit.

Olaf Stapledon, Sirius (1944)