Spiritual Practice Quotes

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I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you have right attitude… — Dalai Lama
Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else… — Kripalvananda
Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no… — Chogyam Trungpa
We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple, as a place to discover… — Jack Kornfield
When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment.… — Jack Kornfield
There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a… — Pema Chodron
If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis. — Douglas Coupland
Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of one's true being.… — Ramana Maharshi
You impose limits on your true nature of infinite being. Then you get displeased to be only a limited creature. Then you begin spiritual practices… — Ramana Maharshi
Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God. — Dallas Willard
One of the most commonly overlooked spiritual practices is daring to be completely honest with everyone you encounter. Some may say others cannot handle their… — Matthew Kahn
Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation. — Swami Vivekananda
Only by spiritual practice can we break through our karma and the effects of the causes we have made. Only then can we escape from… — Ching Hai
This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and to avoid the… — Sogyal Rinpoche
There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment. — Stanislav Grof
If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in… — Ramakrishna
Most pointedly, nature-based people manifest the very qualities that contemporary psychotherapy, the recovery movement, and spiritual practices continually aim for: a visible sense of inner… — Chellis Glendinning
Human beings will continue to deceive and overpower one another. Basically, everyone exists in the very nature of suffering, so to abuse or mistreat each… — Dalai Lama
All spiritual practice must be directed to the removal of the husk and the revelation of the kernel. — Sathya Sai Baba
Our compassion is the fruit of our spiritual lives; it actually arises spontaneously when formed by intention in our spiritual practice. Love and compassion are… — Wayne Teasdale

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