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“Spirituality doesn’t have any age barriers. Depends more from person to person than the age group.”
(Pune, India)

“You don’t need an age to be a spiritual person.”
(Female, 16, Peru)

“I think sometimes we underestimate the spirituality of children … kids of 10 years old can be spiritual … I realize that there are people who are younger than I am who are examples for me.”
(Male, South Africa)

“A person who has more experiences in life doesn’t really mean that he’s more spiritual than another person. I think a 17 year old can be more spiritual than a 44-year old man.” (Male, 17, Israel)

“I think being spiritual when you are younger is harder, but like someone was saying when you are younger you have a better link with Allah.” (Male, 12, England)

“I’ve been going to temple at the age of 8. I think that at that time I was being spiritual, but I didn’t know actually the meaning. But I went to temple and prayed to God, but I didn’t know the meaning.”
(Male, 16, NW India)

“It is good to start introducing children to spiritual things at a tender age because they will go on and continue even when they are grown.”
(Kenya)

“When the person grows up, his spirituality grows with him, particularly when he starts to use his intellect more.” (Female, Syria)

“I think being spiritual when I was younger in a narrow sense. Very young we were educated to think there is only one kind of spirit – a spirit of service like Liefang. But now we understand it in a broader sense. It is just like it is everywhere.”
(Female, 15, China)

“You think that it’s simple in the moment, and then you think about it and it’s like more grand.” (Female, 17, U.S.A.)

“The more you grow, the more you understand. And the more experiences you have, the more the significance of spirituality in our life changes. So I guess I can’t pinpoint what has changed but I think whatever I have seen until now has made spirituality even more important than what it would have been if I had not seen those things.”
(Pune, India)

“The more spiritual you are, the more you understand – it’s like sport, everyone can do sport, but the more you do it, the better you get at it – your spiritual depth only gets deeper as you get older.”
(Male, 18, South Africa)

“So I guess when I get there I’ll actually know whether I’m spiritual or not.”
(Pune, India)

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