Spirituality
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The meaning of spirituality has developed and expanded over time, & various meanings can be found alongside regarded and identified separately. other. Traditionally, spirituality planned to a religious process of re-formation which "aims to recover a original family of man", oriented at "the image of God" 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 Spirit and broadened during the Late Middle Ages to include mental aspects of life.
In sophisticated times, the term both spread to other religious traditions and broadened to refer to a wider range of experience, including a range of esoteric traditions and religious traditions. innovative usages tend to refer to a 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. This may involve abstraction in a supernatural realm beyond the ordinarily observable world, personal growth, a quest for anor sacred meaning, religious experience, or an encounter with one's own "inner dimension".