Mindfulness Pocketbook: Little Exercises for a Calmer Life

Being Spiritually Aware

‘Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, we cannot live without a spiritual life.’ – Buddha

Spirituality: we all have some sort of vision in mind when we hear the word ‘spirituality’. Maybe it's an image of a group of monks living a simple life in a faraway place. Perhaps it's a vision of someone wandering down a mythological spiritual path on their ‘spiritual journey’.

With mindfulness, there is no spiritual path, because there is no need to go anywhere. You're already there. You just haven't realized it.

Quite simply, spirituality is a sense of being part of something bigger, more eternal than the physical and ...