Spiritual Practices
of the Day

Kent Nerburn in Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace
We must remind ourselves...

Madeleine L'Engle in Anytime Prayers
Remember that sometimes monsters only need...

Twylah Nitsch in The Mystic Vision
I listen and hear the Silence...

Brenda Ueland in Finding What You Didn't Lose
Listening is a magnetic and strange...

Hafiz in Marrow of Flame
The Place you are right now...

Jelaluddin Rumi quoted in
Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott
Where there is ruin . . .

Mariana Caplan in The Way of Failure
"Bad" situations in life . . .

Gary Thorp in Sweeping Changes
Try to be a good audience for whatever...

Laurens van der Post in Behold Your Life
There is nothing in your life too terrible...

Thich Nhat Hanh in Plum Village Chanting and Recitation Book
Don't put anything else into your mouth...

Matthew Fox in Creation Spirituality
We all share beauty...

Frederick Buechner in The Swiftly Tilting Worlds of Madeleine L'Engle
Beauty is to the spirit...

Jane Wagner in The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
See, the human mind is kind of like...

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 . . .

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