There have been so many articles comparing and contrasting spirituality and religion. I will soon be penning a different piece. I will take deities out of the equation entirely and discuss spirituality as a practice towards self-improvement and spiritual growth focusing on the actions steps to self-awareness from any 12 -step program, namely steps 4, 5, 8, 9 and 10. You have posited spirituality as the search for truth of reality. Thats a macro approach. At the micro level, it is the search for truth about self and self awareness.