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5 Schneiders, 679.
6 Schneiders, 684, defines spirituality as “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 on perceives.' And Principe, 139, says that spirituality “points to those aspects of a person's living a faith or commitment that concern his or her striving to attain the highest ideal or goal.”