Spirituality
* affects all of the senses and frequently is difficult to describe in words.
* aims at unfolding the real nature of spirit or self.
* also offers a way to die when there's nothing else to live for.
* appears to support emotional development.
* begins at home - in every day life.
* broad concept that encompasses values, meaning and purpose.
* can help bring community into economics
  - serve as a resource of strength
  - take many forms
* causes compassion, sharing, caring, sacrifice and service to arise spontaneously.
* comes from people
  - within the individual person
  - in many forms, one supposes
* concerns itself with the question of how to lead a deeply committed Christian life.
* encompasses a variety of phenomena, including experiences, beliefs, and practices.
* exists from birth for the individual and is incorporated into everyday life
  - within our hearts
* extends beyond the physical, material and self to a state called transcendence.
* force that drives the human desire for freedom and the pursuit of higher ideals.
* fundamental, continuous part of our lives.
* gives families a sense of belonging to and being loved by a higher being
  - meaning and direction to our lives
  - shape and direction to our lives
* helps one to trust and let go of fear
  - the chronically ill people cope with the medical challenges of their condition
* impels one to conquer difficulties and acquire more and more strength.
* implies life.
* includes one s capacity for creativity, growth, and the development of a value system.
* involves motivation.
* is about becoming a whole new person forever
  - conscious of that relationship
  - caring and sharing
  - creativity and powerlessness
  - growing closer to whatever god is
  - meaning and connectedness
  - seeing other worlds, the realm of imagination
  - strengthening every part of our lives
  - the way of the monkey and the way of the kitten
  - wholeness and completion
  - alive in and personal to each soul
* is all about generosity
  - relationships
  - the light, and meditation is about searching for the light
* is also a strong part of their beliefs in success
  - part of nature
  - among the oldest, slipperiest, most subjective and most profound of human phenomena
* is an attitude that reveals life's meaning through everyday experience
  - emotion a feeling
  - experience of the holy
  - important dimension that often grows more important as people age
  - inately human trait
  - individual journey
  - inner experience on earth indirectly
* is an integral aspect of all human life
  - part of everyone's make-up
  - intimate experience, very close, very personal
  - ongoing process that gets better with time
  - undeniable part of human experience
  - anathema to materialism
  - as much part of our humanity as our sexuality
* is at the center of all aspects of living
  - core of all religions
  - basis and motivation for political activism
  - central to many patients' lives
  - communication in and through the transcendental guarantee of the spirit
  - confined to the home, the church, or the community
  - consciousness of infinite interrelatedness
  - defined by different people in different ways
  - dependant on spiritual accountability
  - divorced from public life
  - enhanced with a healthy body and strong mind
* is experienced in the midst of movement, through the celebration of life
  - wrestling
  - expression of the soul and includes art, literature, poetry, music and meditation
  - for people who have already been there
* is for people who have been there already
  - generosity of heart
  - important to understanding a culture's values
  - intricately interwoven into all aspects of Indian culture
  - introversion
  - located in churchs
  - measured by experiences
  - more important than mentality
  - much more difficult to define than religion
  - neither the privilege of the poor nor the luxury of the rich
  - nothing that happens far away somewhere, unrelated with everyday life
* is one of the foundation faculties of the mind
  - healthiest protective factors in mental health
  - most important determinants of organization performance
  - one's connection to life and the totality of all things
  - our way of reconnecting to the real
* is part and parcel of being a human being
  - of the essence of humanity
  - perhaps the most important category related to religion today
  - simply the way getting connected online translates into new kinds of community life
  - something special unto itself that only needs postive ways and thoughts
* is something that a person is born with
  - grows over time based on experience
  - sought in success, achievement and works
  - structured around subjective experiences with little regard for the Scriptures
* is the base from which grows self-esteem, values, morals, and a sense of belonging
  - belief and acceptance of a power or energy beyond our physical selves
  - burgeoning of divinity within the individual
  - core of Indian art
  - drawing out and infusion of spirit in one s life
  - enemy of the capital-centered economy
  - environment for wholeness
  - essence of life that permeates all matter
  - foundation of all progress
* is the fundamental essence of any valid religious and philosophical system
  - part of any valid religious and philosophical system
* is the highest form of politics among indigenous people
* is the key to keeping 'warmed up' for the fight against sin, the world and the devil
  - warmed up for the fight against sin, the world and the devil
  - trust and respect
  - most natural expression in the world
  - oldest known spirituality on the planet
  - path of the heart
  - perfect health of the soul
* is the purity of our positive energy
  - truth
  - realm of self-victory
  - source of all gifts
  - sum total of the attitudes and actions that define our life of faith
  - time-honored method for dealing with life s troublesome nature
  - using of that spirit to enliven others
  - way of the lover
  - willingness to forgive seventy times seven
  - their virtue to share
  - there to gain control over the five senses
  - understood by the heart
  - without reference to religion
* is, perhaps, has always been, more central to human existence than religion.
* knowing by experience that there is an invisible presence that guides our lives.
* leads to that which is real and away from that which is unreal and unimportant.
* level of consciousness that transcends rationality.
* means a variety of things and covers a multitude of practices and ideas
  - freedom from physical limitations
  - prayer
  - striving to feel connected to the rest of the world
* much used word in our lives.
* necessary dimension of being human.
* neglected area of study and research in the treatment of addictions.
* part of sexuality, as are culture and values.
* personal challenge to individuals
  - thing, and it means something different to everyone
* personnal matter.
* plays an important role in maintaining physical health.
* provides healing, hope and sustenance.
* reaffirms the magic of life for children.
* recognizes that there is something sacred at the core of all existence.
* refers to each individual's beliefs about, and experience of, the meaning of life
  - the intensely personal, devotional, life transforming aspects of religion
* religious category.
* science that deals with the spirit.
* seeks to bring head and heart together.
* seems more to do with experiences or feelings
  - to be a basic human good essential for human flourishing
* spontaneous alchemy that occurs when all of the instincts are working together.
* starts with reality.
* state of connectedness to all life, honouring diversity in unity
  - mind and a way of living one's life
* stems from the mind of a person.
* strong basis for all indigenous societies.
* suggests the forces that guide an individual.
* term used to define the relationship between life and spirit.
* therefore aims to develop the highest type of physical and mental things.
* thus has a direct impact on our physical and psychological well-being.
* transcends illness and health.
* transcends the individual and can be a common bond among people
  - physical and material world
* transpersonal quality, it is beyond the ego and obsession with the self.
* truly centers in the mind.
* vision of perfection, faith, gratitude, love, surrender, humility, and grace.
* way of connecting
  - life, a life of continuous prayer
  - living in depth
* word laden with almost infinite levels of meaning
  - that often gets misused