We are body, mind, spirit vibrating at individual frequencies that are enhanced by our experiences.  As a body, we can exercise and eat the right foods to keep us healthy, wealthy, wise.  

As a spirit the nurture from our experiences comes when we realize we have learned a valuable lesson in life's challenges and allow it to color our soul and take us forward in love and light.  

The mind governs all our input and the subconscious mind stores all our experiences.  At death, when the body and spirit separate the mind from each comes together as total mind to carry all our experiences forward.

Spirituality is a natural part of our spirit.  It is the motivation in which we think and operate as we experiences life's challenges.  We can be a spiritual being or a material being, depending upon which frequency we attune to in any given experience.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin:  "We are not a human being having a spiritual experience.  We are a spiritual being having a human experience."

So I say: The truly religious are truly spiritual and the truly spiritual are truly religious. There is nothing wrong with Religion, the problems are religions (i.e. fighting over simantics) and the buzz word use of the term spirituality as a way of distancing oneself from the baggage of the term religion. For I spirituality is not a practice it is a part of so-called reality (i.e. the other half of our material reality), and the prctice of spirituality is religion (i.e. the ceremony or ritual [if you will] which aids in giving expression to the spiritual inside the material). They are different yet one because they are inextriably linked.

One can and does exist without the other.  The point is that they are each options and how we apply the choices is whether we include religious ritual in our spirituality is an option.

I suppose much of the differences or similarities one holds between religious and spiritual depends upon how you chose to define them. I choose the broadest definitions. For example, one of Webster's definitons of spiritual reads as following: "3. of or pertaining to sacred things or matters; religious." For the true subject matter of religion (in my opinion) is what has been called by Rudolf Otto "the numinous" which comes from the latin word "numen" which can simply be translated as "spirit". Therfore if one take a very broad definition of these two terms (religious and spiritual) they will appear as one and the same. For if one is faithful to ones spiritual beliefs, one is being religious. So I now ask how do you define religious and spiritual?

Spirituality is within the human being as an urge to see life from spirit.  Religion (bind back) is the community or meeting up of spiritual people to seek the God of their own understanding.  When the option to seek God is available in an individualized way, spirituality can live in religion.