@LostInParadise – I have little trouble understanding your description of x, which you are labeling as “spirituality”. But your description differs so greatly from what I see others describe as “spirituality”, that I would love for there to be another label for this. This way, our language would be more precise.
@thorninmud – As with @LostInParadise‘s description, I have very little to disagree with regarding what you label as “spirituality”, but again I have been bombarded with people expressing their “spirituality” that almost flip your description on its head. There’s also the small issue with the word “spirit”, which may pose a problem for some of us who have issues with this term. And as for the comparison to love – you can use “love” and your definition of “spirituality” to more accurately describe the human condition. But I still take issue with common usage of the term “spirituality”.
I’ll readily admit that I cringe at the word “spirituality”, and much of it has to do with my experience of how people have used it. So, when I was attempting to describe to a friend recently a strange, temporary shift in consciousness I experienced while meditating recently (having to do with the inability to find “me” or “self”), I was told by my friend that my experience, my daily practice, and my quest is inherently “spiritual”. Yet a few days before, my mother expressed her “spirituality” to me (again), which seemed to be pure Roman Catholicism minus the going to church. You can imagine how uncomfortable I felt trying to understand how a single word was being used to describe a prescribed set of dogmatic beliefs and my informal experimentation with consciousness.