Religion Quote by Rami Shapiro

“PREFACE This is a book about writing as a spiritual practice. This is not a book about spiritual writing. Spiritual writing—inspirational writing—has to conform…

— Rami Shapiro

“spiritual practice is conspiratorial rather than inspirational; it conspires to strip away everything you use to maintain the illusion of certainty, security, and self-identity.…

— Rami Shapiro

“Writing is a deeply spiritual act that can have a profound effect upon the practitioner.”

— Phyllis Theroux

I'm spiritual but I don't practice any sort of thing.

— Taylor Momsen

I don't set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

— Paulo Coelho

“Believe me, you have too many practices already. What is needed is rather a progressive inner simplification. Too many people identify spiritual prowess with…

— Leonard Sweet

“To speak in a spiritual sense is to create but to write is to fix an ephemeral aspect of reality such as a thought…

— Robin Sacredfire

All of these declarations of what writing ought to be, which I had myself-though, thank God I had never committed them to paper-I think…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have...”

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Spiritual practice won’t change what happens. Rather, it will help us to experience what happens not as evil, but simply as what happens.”

— Alan A. Lew

A true spiritual teacher knows more than he or she necessarily verbalizes, using temperance and love to be guided to say what is appropriate...

— Meredith L. Young-Sowers

“Spiritual practice lives at the corner of self-respect and self-discipline.”

— Darren Main