Spiritual Practices
of the Day

Thich Nhat Hanh in Stepping into Freedom
Water flows over these hands...

Diarmuid O'Murchu in Poverty, Celibacy, and Obedience
Already we are immersed in one...

Anne Lamott in Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
Rest and laughter . . .

David Ariel in What Do Jews Believe?
As spiritual agents of God...

Martin Luther in Shadow Dance
It is not the man in Rome that is the source...

Paula Hardin in What Are You Doing with the Rest of Your Life?
Tibetan Buddhist monks greet strangers...

Guillermo in Simply Living
There is always enough...

Sara Maitland in A Big-Enough God
Hope is the basis for taking responsibility...

Ryokan, Zen monk
Oh, that my monk's robes . . .

Shunryu Suzuki-roshi in At Home with Dying
When you give something...

Regina Sara Ryan in The Woman Awake
A woman awake — a woman with...

Matthew Fox in Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh
Milk-toast-ness is a sin...

Abraham Joshua Heschel in The Way Into Jewish Prayer
To pray is to dream...

Tracy and Jeff Zaleski inTransformations
There's a nice phrase from the Taoist...

Darlene Cohen in Finding a Joyful Life in the Heart of Pain
In many other cultures, it is commonplace...

Henry Miller in Sacred Journeys in a Modern World
How to be an artist: Stay loose...

William Sloane Coffin in Credo
God's love . . .

Thich Nhat Hanh in The Gentle Smile
Everything around you is keeping your smile...

Baal Shem Tov
Everybody is unique...

Joan Chittister in The Friendship of Women
Acceptance is . . .

Eduardo Galeano in Upside Down
The market for private police...

Damaris Parker-Rhodes quoted in Plain Living by Catherine Whitmire
If I am very aware . . .

Rebbe Nachman of Breslov in The Empty Chair
All beginnings require . . .

Mark Epstein in Going on Being
One who can tolerate his own terror . . .

Lewis B. Smedes in Choices
I am personally thankful that we live together...

Ram Dass in One Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life
The shadow is the greatest teacher . . .

Caroline A. Westerhoff in Good Fences
We are also the enemy strangers...

Rimpoche Nawang Gehlek in Good Life, Good Death
Don't be afraid . . .

Carlo Carretto in The Whole Heaven Catalog
If you asked me how God has revealed himself...

Helen M. Luke in Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On
A lifetime of habitual reactions stands like...

Frederick Buechner quoted in Credo by William Sloane Coffin
A clenched fish can't . . .

Pinchas of Koretz quoted in The Way into Jewish Mystical Tradition by Lawrence Kushner
Just for the sake of uttering one word . . .

Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezritch in Hasidic Wisdom
Sometimes you have to rake through many ashes...

Donald Altman in Art of the Inner Meal
I recall the story about a man...

Jean Shinoda Bolen in Close to the Bone
Insights from myth, dreams...

Thomas Keating in Active Meditations for Contemplative Prayer
People who injure us are doing us...

Anthony de Mello in The Heart of the Enlightened
The human mind makes foolish divisions . . .

Kathleen Norris in The Quotidian Mysteries
Whenever I am checking bags at an airport...

W. H. Auden quoted in The Five Things We Cannot Change
Don't tell me . . .

Oscar Romero in Oscar Romero: Reflections on His Life and Writings
I denounce especially the absolutizing of wealth...

Sogyal Rinpoche in Buddhist Acts of Compassion
In a public talk, Sogyal Rinpoche recalls...

John Tarrant in The Light Inside the Dark
Many times on our journey we are tempted...

A Muslim prayer in The Children's Book of Poems, Prayers and Meditations
I thank you Lord, for knowing me...

Exercise by Will Brinton described in Love and the World by Robert Sardello
When you walk on the Earth . . .

His Holiness Dalai Lama in The Path to Tranquility
If you find yourself slandering anybody...

Marguerite Yourcenar quoted in Unexpected Miracles by David Richo
To stay in one place . . .

Rumi quoted in Honoring the Earth edited by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon
Spring, and no one can be still . . .

Rainer Maria Rilke
Work of the eyes is done...

Scott Russell Sanders in Staying Put
Mystery is not much in favor...

Edward Hays in Secular Sanctity
I see letters I have received as sacraments...

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