Outline of spirituality

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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to spirituality:

Spirituality may refer to an ultimate or an alleged immaterial reality,<ref>Ewert Cousins, preface to Antoine Faivre and Jacob Needleman, Modern Esoteric Spirituality, Crossroad Publishing 1992.</ref>Template:Request quotation an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of their own being, or the "deepest values and meanings by which people live."<ref>Philip Sheldrake, A Brief History of Spirituality, Wiley-Blackwell 2007 p. 1-2</ref>Template:Request quotation

Spiritual practices, including meditation, prayer and contemplation, are intended to develop an individual's inner life; spiritual experience includes that of connectedness with a larger reality, yielding a more comprehensive self; with other individuals or the human community; with nature or the cosmos; or with the divine realm.<ref>Margaret A. Burkhardt and Mary Gail Nagai-Jacobson, Spirituality: living our connectedness, Delmar Cengage Learning, p. xiii</ref>

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Introductory topics

Eastern

Other topics

Philosophy and religion

Paths

Inner path

"Inner path", as a spiritual or religious concept, is referred to in:

Left-hand path

Magic and occult

Martial arts

New Age

People

Spiritual and occult practices

Concentration

Divination

Other

Western

Religion, esotericism, and mysticism

Organizations

People

Occultism and practical mysticism

Neopaganism

See also

References

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