Welcome. You’ve picked up this book for a reason. Perhaps you feel a quiet hum of dissatisfaction with the surface-level rush of daily life. Maybe you’re recovering from a rigid religious upbringing, or you’ve achieved every goal on your list—career, home, relationship—only to feel an unexpected void. Or perhaps, in a moment of stillness, you simply felt that something more exists, just beyond the reach of your busy mind.
Welcome. The journey begins exactly where you are. introduction to spirituality: a contemporary guide book
Here, we use the word with precision. Spirituality comes from the Latin spiritus —breath. At its core, it is the practice of noticing the life force that animates you. It is the felt sense of being alive. It is the awareness that notices your thoughts, your emotions, and your body, but is not identical to any of them. Welcome
That you are worth examining. That your inner life matters. That beneath the noise of obligation and distraction, there is a steady, quiet pulse of awareness, waiting to be noticed. Maybe you’re recovering from a rigid religious upbringing,
Before reading further, take one minute to write down your honest answer to this question: “If my life had an underlying sense of meaning or connection, what would be different right now?” No right or wrong answers. Just your truth. —From Introduction to Spirituality: A Contemporary Guidebook , available now.