Recent Spiritual Readings of the Day

Brenda Shoshanna in Zen and the Art of Falling in Love Brenda Shoshanna on the Zen practice of excluding nothing as a part of love.
Dinesh Khanna, Pico Iyer in Living Faith Dinesh Khanna and Pico Iyer's salute to living faith in the exotic country of India.
Wayne Dyer in The Power of Intention Wayne Dyer with a teaching story about appreciating beauty.
Sandy C. Newbigging in Thunk! Sandy C. Newbigging on directing your attention inwards toward your heart.
Rupert Sheldrake in Ways to Go Beyond and Why They Work Rupert Sheldrake on how sports can have spiritual effects.
Megan McKenna in And Morning Came Lays out 35 spiritual practices for the Christian community to do in the spirit of transformation.
Frederick Buechner in Telling the Truth Reminders of a truth that lies behind what we ordinarily call "reality."
Megan McKenna in Send My Roots Rain Megan McKenna with a teaching story on transformation.
Manfred B. Steger, Perle Besserman in Grassroots Zen Manfred Steger and Perle Besserman on the beauty in putting limits and constraints on our desires and hopes.
John Dear in Lazarus, Come Forth! John Dear on sharing the risen life of Christ by practicing loving nonviolence.
Ajahn Chah in Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away Ajahn Chah's story on letting go of attachment to be present.
Eve Eliot in Attention Shoppers!
Kenneth Briggs in The Power of Forgiveness Kenneth Briggs's scientific query about forgiveness.
Eric Maisel in Rethinking Depression Eric Maisel on maintaining a morning meaning practice.
Robert Bly in The Soul Is Here for Its Own Joy Kabir's poem on beauty.
Anne Lamott in Grace (Eventually)
Jack Kornfield in The Buddha Is Still Teaching Jack Kornfield on how we are all interconnected.
Aaron Spevack, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali in Ghazali on the Principles of Islamic Spirituality Abu Hamid al-Ghazali on curing envy through knowledge and action.
Elliott Dorff, Louis Newman in Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices Elliot Dorff and Louis Newman on how money is something to be grateful for because it is not only a result of our efforts.
Franco Moretti in Far Country Reasons why Red River is the greatest of all epic Westerns.
Sara Miles in Take This Bread Sara Miles on opening ourselves to all of God's creation.
His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Victor Chan in The Wisdom of Forgiveness His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Victor Chan on how forgiveness enabled survival in prison.
James Hillman in A Terrible Love of War James Hillman on imagining the suffering of the earth in times of war.
Joan Chittister in The Breath of the Soul Joan Chittister on the different dimensions of prayer including the spiritual practice of attention.
Estelle Frankel in Sacred Therapy Estelle Frankel's Hasidic tales to illustrate the transformative power of kindness.
Kate Vogt, Ron Nathwani in Mala of the Heart Lalla of India's poem on living the scriptures.
William John Fitzgerald in Blessings for the Fast Paced and Cyberspaced William John Fitzgerald's prayer of blessing in gratitude for our busy lives.
Peter Hedges, Pierce Gardner in Dan in Real Life A scene about admitting you're in love from the movie Dan in Real Life by Pierce Gardner and Peter Hedges.
Rami Shapiro in The Hebrew Prophets On knowing that we are God manifest in time and place.
Madeleine L'Engle in The Rock That Is Higher Madeleine L'Engle's teaching story about faith.