Mindful Paths

Mindful Paths: Steps Towards A Living Spirituality by Constance McClain and James Anthony Walker provides an inspiring compendium of spiritual wisdom and practice along with practical worksheets to help each reader define and refine the depth and breadth of their own spiritual being. Based on decades of study with many great teachers, and in turn teaching hundreds of their own students, I highly recommend it both for beginners and those who have already set out on their spiritual journey.

-Ed Bastian, PhD Founder, Spiritual Paths Institute Author, “Living Fully, Dying Well: Reflecting on Death to Find Your Life’s Meaning”

Even though you really don’t know where you are going, sometimes you need a roadmap to get there. Revs. Constance McClain and James Anthony Walker’s Mindful Paths: Steps Towards A Living Spirituality is that roadmap. It doesn’t presume to know who you are or where you need to go, but invites you to discover both through deep and practical exercises of self inquiry. This book requires both light reading and heavy lifting. Read the book. Do the work.

-Rabbi Rami Shapiro Author, “The Sacred Art of Lovingkindness”

This new collaboration between Revs. Constance McClain and James Anthony Walker is a gem of a book, and a revelation. With great care and ease, they offer a loving introduction to spirituality as a vital dimension to our health and well-being which is deeply compelling — and potentially life-changing method, they only ask for our honest, personal investment in ourselves — and therefore to the means affording a more spiritual life. They systematically ask us to consider the big questions of our deepest reality, and invite us to become increasingly aware of the rich inner life uniquely our own. Whether you are currently engaged in a religious path, or instead find yourself to be “spiritual but not religious,” their compassionate work is an opportunity to deepen and grow. Their work is user-friendly and extremely timely, for it encourages our consideration of the impact and transformation that spirituality can have an each of us as individuals — and therefore on our culture at large, sorely in need of our loving care and consciousness. Highly recommended.

-Rev. David B. Wallace Dean, One Spirit Interfaith Seminary, NYC