Rare is the definition that fails to mention relationship or connectedness. A good percentage of readers throw that web of relationship even wider. Too often we separate our spiritual life from what we call our regular life. Nearly 10 percent of U.S. Catholic readers mention that sad or difficult experiences lay behind their most profound experiences of spirituality. I checked the time and saw that it was the same time of day that she'd died.
Most readers say their most memorable experiences of spirituality happened while on a retreat.
I had thought I knew Jesus. I discovered I knew of him and did not know him. Page Salazar of Gaithersburg, Maryland describes a profound experience of parish worship. Several times during our parish Penance services, I have felt God's presence very strongly and have been moved to tears by the experience. It is profoundly spiritual and profoundly Christian.