People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Try to gather the strength to live as brother and sister after one or two children are born. This is essential for… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Complete surrender usually happens through living. Your very life is the ground where that happens. There may be a partial surrender and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A fully engaged imagination is essential to the spiritual practice of the Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana School, whose artistic tradition is in service… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“Your life is your practice. Your spiritual practice does not occur someplace other than in your life right now, and your life… — Karen Maezen Miller Copy Share Image
Spiritual practice . . . involves, on the one hand, acting out of concern for others' well-being. On the other, it entails… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Somewhere in my early twenties I realized I was pretty constantly monitoring myself, judging how I was always falling short, whether it… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“The mantra of the victim is, “If not for the events and circumstances of the world, I would be happy.” The world… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
Millions of people are joined in the knowledge that writing brings insight and calm in the same way that prayer, meditation, or… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Everything he wrote aims at awakening others to the contemplative dimension in themselves. His contemplative theology-as well as his entire theological "system"-emphasizes… — Wayne Teasdale Copy Share Image
“PREFACE This is a book about writing as a spiritual practice. This is not a book about spiritual writing. Spiritual writing—inspirational writing—has… — Rami Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Did poverty in itself lead to moral failings, such as crime? Was "goodness" something that could be objectified and measured? Did society… — Jean Thompson Copy Share Image
We have in us a divine spark that you can see. It's a Light that shines in the human being. It's our… — Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee Copy Share Image
You, just as you are, and your life here, right now, are all there is and all you need to know. You… — angel Kyodo Williams Copy Share Image
Climbing Jacob''s Ladder is a gutsy, glowing account of one man's encounter with a potent spiritual practice and how it transformed his… — Larry Dossey Copy Share Image
“The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will,… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
I have a spiritual practice which helps to keep me grounded and centered. Yoga is vital because it keeps me in full… — Grace Gealey Copy Share Image
Along with my spiritual practices of meditation, affirmative prayer, and visioning, what catalyzes my sense of aliveness is putting those practices into… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
The rise of community among cultures and religious traditions makes possible what we can call 'interspirituality': the assimilation of insights, values, and… — Wayne Teasdale Copy Share Image
“The most effective intention is a desire for a conscious contact with your soul, a deeper connection to your Self. This is… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
“In sum, passing over to Buddhist spiritual practice has taught me, and can teach my church, that all our words, whether in… — Paul F. Knitter Copy Share Image
“ethics is at the center of both spiritual practice and social transformation. Without a strong ethical foundation, we inevitably fall into contradictions-between… — Donald Rothberg Copy Share Image
“And my number-one spiritual practice is trying to live in the present moment … to resist projecting into the future, or lamenting… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Children, set aside at least half an hour in the morning and in the evening for spiritual practices. After bathing in the… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“Virtue, mindfulness, and wisdom are the pillars of everyday well-being, personal growth, and spiritual practice; they draw on the three fundamental neural… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
“spiritual practice is conspiratorial rather than inspirational; it conspires to strip away everything you use to maintain the illusion of certainty, security,… — Rami Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Everywhere I looked, hope existed - but only as some kind of green shoot in the midst of struggle. It was a… — Joan Chittister Copy Share Image
Human beings will continue to deceive and overpower one another. Basically, everyone exists in the very nature of suffering, so to abuse… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
My personal opinion is that the neutral position on the mood spectrum—what I called emotional sea level—is not happiness but rather contentment… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Our practices - our most spiritual practices - are hanging laundry on the line, raising children, building strong relationships, practicing kindness as… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
As Carl Jung once said, 'When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.' When our boys become… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
“My trouble is that I think there is a track that things should stay on. I'm hooked to a belief that life… — Denise Roy Copy Share Image
If you can't fall asleep, learn how to meditate. I would recommend you listen to a beautiful tape called Spiritual Power, Spiritual… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Adversity is a natural part of being human. It is the height of arrogance to prescribe a moral code or health regimen… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
There is a push and a pull almost like an isometric stretch. Our literal flexibility and our physical, psychological and spiritual practices… — Brenda Strong Copy Share Image
You should not delay the good things in life. Just do them. Whenever you get a chance to do spiritual practice or… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Giving up attachment to the world does not mean that you set yourself apart from it. Generating a desire for others to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce.… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image