Soul Celebrations and Spiritual Snacks, by my friend Alexandra York, is a book of “secular spirituality.” This new book is a systematic collection of educated, rational, and emotionally evocative exercises and best practices for cultivating one’s love for nature and for the highest elements of mankind—in art and romance—for the purpose of reaping sublime rewards for one’s soul.

The book is also a guide to integrity in the sense of clarifying one’s highest personal values and creating a life in accordance with those values. The last chapter of the book is “Know Thyself.”

The book is chock full of marvelous ideas for experiencing profound joy. Moreover, the reader need not stop with the author’s ideas, instead being stimulated to devise his own too.