Thoughts define and create our emotions. Emotions create our behaviors.
Repeat.
Thus so the itself eating snake, our life, defines itself.
I am non-lingual in three, four, five languages.
My conduct, passive and active of those languages is not sufficient:
Hebrew, Dutch, English, the language of Images, the language of Sounds.
When I think about the concept of Devotion, I think the English word: Devotion, which, as I have just learned, comes from Latin.
In my mother tongue, Hebrew, I cannot find the exact parallel concept. That is the way it works with translations. When translating I actually get to know and feel the whole scope of the to be translated word, all its aspects and connotations, implications, associations, dreams and wishes.
Google helps again: in Hebrew the first suggestion is Mesirut.
My own first suggestion, which sprang to my mind and lips, even though I knew it was not correct was Hitmasrut, which implies gives oneself up, surrender one's soul. And here again, losing meaning, gaining other meanings.