Spiritual Practices
of the Day

Sara Shendelman and Dr. Avram Davis in Traditions
A tradition that derives from the kabbalah...

Richard Rohr in Hope Against Darkness
Don't waste any time dividing the world...

Julia Cameron in God Is No Laughing Matter
Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping...

Rumi in Love Is a Fire
God turns you from one feeling...

Yoruba proverb quoted in Chanting: Discovering Spirit in Sound by Robert Gass and Kathleen Brehony
A village without music . . .

Mark Nepo in The Book of Awakening
One key to knowing joy...

Gracie Allen quoted in the United Church of Christ's God Is Still Speaking Campaign
Never put a period . . .

John Muir quoted in Leather Tramp Journal by Richard Broderick
Keep close to Nature's heart . . .

David A. Cooper in Entering the Sacred Mountain
I have begun visualizing myself cradled...

Colman McCarthy quoted in Spiritual Literacy by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
We only have to go a little beyond . . .

Yitzhak Buxbaum in Jewish Spiritual Practices
Before studying Torah, the Baal Shem Tov...

Brenda Peterson in American Nature Writing 1994
The Hopi Indians of Arizona believe...

Edward Hays in The Ladder
A good daily exercise for soul loss...

Brenda Peterson in Singing to the Sound
It is never too late to...

Marianne Williamson in A Return to Love
Spiritual progress is . . .

Mary Manin Morrissey in No Less Than Greatness
When someone's really listening . . .

Sharon Salzberg in Faith
To be driven by fear . . .

Lawrence Kushner in Invisible Lines of Connection
So that's what it's all about...

Wendell Berry in A Timbered Choir
When we work well, a Sabbath mood...

Bernard Glassman and Rick Fields in Instructions to the Cook
Doubt is a state of openness...

Joseph Telushkin in Jewish Wisdom
It is not in our power to explain...

Robert Frager quoted in The Wisdom of Islam
If you put the world between you and God . . .

David Spangler in Blessing: The Art and the Practice
A blessing is . . .

Heraclitus in Fragments
The sun is new again...

Jacob Needleman in A Little Book on Love
Simply put, there is nothing...

Alice Walker in The Sacred Impulse
I get energy from the Earth...

Aegidius of Assisi quoted in The Silent Cry by Dorothee Soelle
I know a man who saw God . . .

Thomas Keating in The Human Condition
Every human pleasure . . .

Alison Luterman in After the Ecstasy, the Laundry
Strawberries are too delicate...

Muhammad quoted in Merton and Sufism
The Prophet said, "Let him groan..."

Muhammed quoted in The Knowing Heart
Blessed are the strangers . . .

Barbara Kingsolver in High Tide in Tucson
A great many people will live out...

Sylvia Boorstein in It's Easier Than You Think
Grumbling doesn't make anything better . . .

Mark Nepo in The Book of Awakening
Rather than finding ourselves in everything...

Dom Helder Camara in Ponderings from the Precipice
Accept surprises that upset your plans...

Rumi in The Rumi Collection
That which God said to the rose...

Carlos Valles quoted in This Our Exile by James Martin
If you always imagine God . . .

Buddha in What Would Buddha Do?
The right time to show your good character...

Thich Nhat Hanh in Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
Human beings are not our enemy...

Jose Hobday in Stories of Awe and Abundance
Just stand wherever you are...

Julian of Norwich quoted in Silent Hope by John Kirvan
Not only great and noble things . . .

Joan Borysenko in A Woman's Journey to God
God is never closer...

Hazrat Inayat Khan quoted in The Exquisite Risk
God breaks the heart . . .

Walt Whitman inThe Nature of Generosity
This is what you shall do...

Robert Fulghum in Maybe, Maybe Not
Never, ever regret . . .

David A. Cooper in God Is a Verb
God says . . .

Clark Strand in The Wooden Bowl
I once saw a cartoon...

Charlotte Joko Beck in Finding What You Didn't Lose
We need to approach our state of mind...

Therapist in Good Will Hunting
Bad things draw our attention...

Gregory F. A. Pierce in Spirituality @ Work
Each time you go to an art or sporting event . . .

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