Spirituality

The meaning of spirituality has developed and expanded over time, and various connotations can be found alongside each other.p=44p=36p=213name="definition" Traditionally, spirituality referred to a religious process of re-formation which "aims to recover the original shape of man",p=4602002 uses the word "omvorming", "to change the form". Different translations are possible: transformation, re-formation, trans-mutation.}} oriented at "the image of God"p=4602002 as exemplified by the founders and sacred texts of the religions of the world. The term was used within early Christianity to refer to a life oriented toward the Holy Spirit2009 and broadened during the Late Middle Ages to include mental aspects of life. In modern times, the term both spread to other religious traditions1999 and broadened to refer to a wider range of experience, including a range of esoteric traditions and religious traditions. Modern usages tend to refer to a subjective experience of a sacred dimensionp=1259 and the "deepest values and meanings by which people live",pp=1–21988 often in a context separate from organized religious institutions,2008 such as a belief in a supernatural (beyond the known and observable) realm,2014 personal growth,2007 a quest for an ultimate or sacred meaning,p=261 religious experience,2000 or an encounter with one's own "inner dimension".p=315