What is 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.
Meditation is a practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing their mind on a particular object, thought or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm state.
Yoga (योग) is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India. Yoga is one of the six orthodox schools of Hindu philosophical traditions. There is a broad variety of yoga schools, practices, and goals in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. The term “yoga” in the Western world often denotes a modern form of Hatha yoga, which includes the physical practice of postures called asanas.
Sufism, mystical Islamic belief and practice in which Muslims seek to find the truth of divine love and knowledge through direct personal experience of God. It consists of a variety of mystical paths that are designed to ascertain the nature of humanity and of God and to facilitate the experience of the presence of divine love and wisdom in the world.
Poetry is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic qualities, in addition to, or instead of, its apparent meaning.
is human expression in the medium of time using the structures of sounds or tones and silence. It is expressed in terms of pitch, rhythm, harmony, and timbre.

Spirituality
Main subjects in this category: Yoga, Meditation, Fasting, Sufism, Poetry, and Music
Meditation
Main articles
Forms of meditationFocused attention methods Open monitoring methods Practices using both methods No thought Automatic self-transcending Meditation practiceCommon practice timings
Physical postures and techniques
Use of prayer beads Secular applicationsSound-based meditation Clinical StudiesMeditation, religion and drugsQuotes on Meditation
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Religious and spiritual meditationIndian religionsJainism Buddhism Hinduism Sikhism East Asian religionsModern spiritualityNew AgeNew Age meditations Abrahamic religionsJudaism
Christianity
Islam
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Yoga
Main articles
GoalsThe ultimate goal of Yoga: Textual references
Health effectsReception in other religionsChristianity |
Schools of yogaHinduism
BuddhismJainismTantraYogacara schoolBhakti movementHatha YogaSikhismModern Yoga |
Fasting
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Health effectsMedical applicationIn alternative medicineReligious viewsBahá’í faithChristianity
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Islam
JainismHinduismJudaismTaoismBuddhismYogaMeditationSee also |
Sufism
Poetry
HistoryTypes of poetryCommon poetic forms
Dramatic poetryPeriods, styles and movements |
Religions in poetryElements of poetryMain article: Meter (poetry)
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Some famous poems
Some famous poets and their poems
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Love of music
Music
Main articles:Types of music |
Samples |
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