Outline Of Spirituality
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This main article is about the outline of spirituality.
Spirituality may refer to an ultimate or an alleged immaterial reality, an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of his/her being, or the “deepest values and meanings by which people live.”
Spiritual practices, including yoga, fasting, 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. Music, poetry, and literature would help to attain perfect inner peace.
Sufism (tasawwuf) is the path followed by Sufis to reach the Truth—God. While Sufism usually expresses the theoretical or philosophical aspect of this search, the practical aspect is usually referred to as “being a dervish.”
Mysticism is the practice of religious ecstasies (religious experiences during alternate states of consciousness), together with whatever ideologies, ethics, rites, myths, legends, and magic may be related to them.
Spirituality referred to a religious process of re-formation which “aims to recover the original shape of man“, oriented at “the image of God” as exemplified by the founders and sacred texts of the religions of the world.
Spiritual Happiness
EasternEsotericism and mysticismCategory: ShabdaOther topicsPhilosophy and religion
New Age
People
Martial arts
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Magic and occult
PathsInner path“Inner path“, as a spiritual or religious concept, is referred to in:
Left-hand path Dream Catcher Spiritual and occult practicesConcentration
Divination
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Windows to Spirituality
WesternReligion, esotericism, and mysticism
Organizations
People
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Occultism and practical mysticism
NeopaganismChristianityEsoteric Christianity
Egyptian mythologyIslamSufismJudaism
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