A Very Well Known and Highly Regarded Description of Spirituality

(Spirituality is) "the experience of consciously striving to integrate one’s life in terms not of isolation and self-absorption but of self-transcendence toward the ultimate value one perceives."

 [Sandra Schneiders, "Theology and Spirituality: Strangers, Rivals, or Partners?" Horizons 13, no. 2 (1986): 266.]