quantitative.................qualitative

objective.......................subjective

rational...........................emotional

tools for measurement of value
apparatus......................feelings

exterior sensation............inner intuition

Considering your interest in the word's use & definition and the topic, I thought you might like reading this link: http://www.gnostics.com/spirituality.html (page seemed slow to load for me).

Or not, of course.

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I like it.  It loaded quick for me.  It has fade-in feature that is attractive. It does it when you arrive and when you leave the site.  It looks like it is, from just a quick going over, an in-depth review of many religions and philosophies.  This is something that just gave me a bit more of a grasp on what our inner core is:

Now, correcting my assumptions put forth early on in this lesson, it appears that Monads start out as leaving in the beginning of time their high spiritual status and condition as un-self-conscious god-sparks, so to say crystallized in impassive purity, cycling down through the worlds visible and invisible, they entered upon the sublime Adventure of self-evolution, of self-growth, of self-becoming, and of bringing to each one of their enshrouding quasi-conscious veils or sheaths of consciousness, an ever expanding consciousness of each one's own inner being; for the most wonderful thought in the archaic evolutionary scheme is this:  that not only is the spiritual Monad itself evolving, revolving in unceasing peregrinations, but it thus aids in the evolution of everyone of these enshrouding garments or veils in which and through which it expresses its own transcendent powers.

From this, I would expect that the Ego is one of these veils and I would say that an individual should be taking care as to how he or she might become a bit too enmeshed in emotional attachment to matter.  Salut, Sowelo.

Or not, of course.

I have now collated all the responses I have had (both on my site, and from various forums - including this one), into a single post:

What is Spirituality?

If you still want to add a reply, it isn't too late.  Simply post here or on my site, and I will add it as a quote into the main post.

Thanks again.  Got some quite interesting perspectives indeed!

Rediscovering self through saturation, then dissipation. Reflecting on our own nature using only _our own nature_ as a measure.
Recognizing the various traps that have been set, and intuitively avoiding even those less-common pitfalls. Connecting on a level far beyond 'face' value.

It's gearing up for infinity. No matter your base or faith. And having some certainty that we are gonna "get it right" this time...

  J

Spirituality: The quality or state of consciousness organized and focused through the awareness that all life is eternal and borne of the sacred.

What is the difference between metaphysics and spirituality?

Besides, a definition isn't useful in any way to really understand something.

By definition, a human and an unfeathered chicken would be the same because they both "have no feather and walk on two legs". See the absurdity?

A definition is (by definition!) an intellectual abstraction, which has nothing to do with the real true understanding of the reality its refers to.