"Spirituality is a quality of all life, not an exceptional experience of special kind of life."

-- John Westerhoff

"Spirituality is our relationship with the reality that is before us at this moment."

-- Leonard Willoughby

"The world's spiritual geniuses seem to discover universally that the mind's muddy river, this ceaseless flow of trivia and trash, cannot be damned, and that trying to dam it is a waste of effort that might lead to madness."

-- Annie Dillard

"Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely as a vehicle for joy."

-- George Santayana

"Any spiritual concept that does not refer to life as we know it will not be much good."

-- Ramesh Balsekar