Spirituality as an atheist?

[DespondentFishdeathMasochismo]

The question of what it means to be spiritual as an atheist is never really something I gave much thought. I was wondering today what spirituality could mean if not worshiping something supernatural. I discovered that it is simply the search for meaning in life and a connection to the world around you. My futurist friend who believes that spirituality is the merging of human and machine in the coming decades describes spirituality as " To me spirituality is simply discovering yourself in relation to the universe and existence". 


That puts spirituality into a unique perspective, one that I feel gives an unlikely name to something I've been searching for. To me, spirituality could be walking around outside and listening to a really good album, like Tim Hecker's Virgins, or Silent Hill 2 OST, or any album by Coil, feeling at peace with the world around you, feeling as though you have acceptance and ease and calm with the world. I know there's some Budhist Monks who train their whole life to achieve "enlightenment". I've never written off enlightenment, to me it's always represented a higher state of consciousness. 

What can atheists do to discover their own spirituality? Bring themselves closer to acceptance of existence on the planet earth? I'd dare say that being at peace with the world around me is "virtuous".

Spirituality = the search for the spirit within.
The spirit concern is not the booze but it is the real YOU so spirituality is the work involved to discover the real you.
We wrongly think that the real me is what i feel to be right now but no.
The more we enter the consciousness the more we understand that is a lot lot more but the talk could go on and on.
The same apply to the consciousness.
The search continue until our consciousness merge in the infinite one and that represent the end of the search.  

Well, I completely reject that notion of spirituality, on the basis of being absurd and unfounded. 

It strikes me that people believe in "supernatural" forces; "Supernatural" or "magic" or belief in "holy spirit" or anything supernatural for that matter, is literally just replacing what you don't know with something made up. That sort of spirituality is literally just making shit up, or tricking yourself into believing in your imagination.

Having an imagination is actually a really good thing, but it's really important to separate in your head what is real and what isn't.