Spiritual Practices for Everyday Life
Dwelling in Grateful Joy
A practice of gratitude that allows you to acknowledge all that has supported you.
Gratitude
Enthusiasm Day by Day
Reflections based on Genesis 1 that celebrate beginnings, the sky, the waters, the cosmos, life's splendor, humanity, and rest.
Enthusiasm
Where Should We Eat?
Ways to make wise choices when you have an opportunity to dine out.
Openness
Falling in Love with a Poem
How to develop a vibrant relationship with a poem, letting it change you.
Teachers
Mini-Retreat - Spiritual Work with Light
A personal retreat to work with the spiritual significance of light.
Transformation
Protecting All Motherly Human Beings
A meditation by Penor Rinpoche to counter dualistic thinking and to create compassion.
Compassion
Mini-Retreat - Spiritual Work with Memories
A personal retreat to harvest your memories and practice making new ones.
Connections
Spiritual Practices for Difficult Times
Nine practices for times when world events overwhelm us and we feel defeated.
Transformation
Taking Stock of Your Connections
How making an inventory of the objects in your home underscores your dependence and influence on others.
Connections
Waiting with Attention
A fascinating view into the mind's tricks: desire, envy, dislike, anger, and more.
Attention
Crossing Thresholds
Ways you can acknowledge transition moments and places as a spiritual practice.
Being Present
Worldwide Connections
Suggestions for broadening your perspective of the world.
Connections
Bringing Your Emotions to Life
Ways to work with five key emotions.
Joy
Spiritual Practice Toolkit
A wide variety of practices, inspired by all the religious and spiritual traditions, for what’s happening in your life today.
Attention
House Blessings for Epiphany
Prayers and rituals for blessing your home on Epiphany or any day.
Reverence
Finishing Things
Five spiritual practices to help you complete a personal or social transformation project.
Transformation
Coping with Negativity
Spiritual practices to use as antidotes to all the negativity in our private and public lives.
X-The Mystery
Reframing Regrets
Practices and suggestions to transform regret into a positive spiritual tool.
Being Present
10 Reasons Why Gandhi Is My Hero
Quotations and stories that illustrate why Gandhi ideas and ideals still inspire and animate people.
Love
Spiritually Literate Holiday Gifts
Examples of gifts that have meanings attached to them and reflect spiritual practices from the Alphabet of Spiritual Literacy.
Imagination