Recent Spiritual Practices of the Day

Matthew Fox in Creation Spirituality We all share beauty
Thich Nhat Hanh in The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching The First Training is about reverence for life
Buddha in Buddha's Little Instruction Book Our body is precious
Jane Wagner in The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe See, the human mind is kind of like
Shaun McNiff in Earth Angels It is often the apparently inconsequential action
Diane Ackerman in A Natural History of Love The heart is a museum
Andre Dubus in Meditations from a Movable Chair A sacrament is physical
Leonardo Boff in The Prayer of St. Francis This attitude of reverence and affection
Abraham Joshua Heschel in God in Search of Man There is the grain of the prophet
Dag Hammarskjold in Senses Wide Open When we come to a point of rest
Joyce Rupp in Dear Heart, Come Home I like food that is flavorful
Jelaluddin Rumi in The Rumi Collection That which God said to the rose
Joseph Telushkin in Jewish Wisdom It is not in our power to explain
Lama Surya Das in Awakening to the Sacred Bow to all beings
Shoni Labowitz in Miraculous Living It is the creative person who steps aside
Hazrat Inayat Khan in The Heart of Sufism Patience is fed on hope
Matt Damon, Ben Affleck in Good Will Hunting Bad things draw our attention
Diana Eck in God at 2000 When we take off our shoes
Arthur P. Ciaramicoli, Katherine Ketcham in Power of Empathy We don't know enough to make judgments
Celeste Snowber Schroeder in In the Womb of God My friend has a kaleidoscope she sometimes uses in her counseling practice. She invites her client to look through the kaleidoscope to catch a new perspective. God's Spirit within us is like this kaleidoscope; we need to be attentive to it so we can be transformed with new eyes.
Mariana Caplan in The Way of Failure "Bad" situations in life
Joseph Telushkin in The Book of Jewish Values My wife and I periodically try to engage
Muslim Prayer in The Children's Book of Poems, Prayers and Meditations I thank you Lord, for knowing me
Ahron Rokeach of Belz in Hasidic Wisdom One can learn a useful lesson from everything
The Music of Silence The economics of affluence demands
Wayne Teasdale, George Carirns in The Community of Religions Openness is a receptivity to everyone
Sakya Pandita in Gems of Wisdom from the Seventh Dalai Lama When you have nothing meaningful to say
Rav Kook in Meetings with the Archangel It is our right to hate the actions
Ernesto Cardenal in Abide in Love We feel the Beloved's presence
Wayne Muller in Sabbath Bless strangers quietly, secretly