Recent Spiritual Practices of the Day

Abba Nilus in Desert Wisdom Do not want things
Diane Ackerman in A Natural History of Love The heart is a museum
Walt Whitman in Divine Things The narrowest hinge in my hand
Thich Nhat Hanh in Love in Action Things can sometimes go more smoothly
Nikos Kazantskis in Zorba the Greek Everything in this world has a hidden
Abraham Joshua Heschel in God in Search of Man There is the grain of the prophet
Robert Svoboda in Spiritual Divorce Every human being is a mirror
Buddha in Buddha's Little Instruction Book Our body is precious
Anthony de Mello in Awareness The world is right because
Meister Eckhart in The Solace of Fierce Landscapes God is like a person who clears his throat
Yitzhak Buxbaum in Jewish Spiritual Practices A practice recommended by various hasidic
Robert A. Johnson, Jerry Ruhl in Contentment The origin of the phrase to saunter
Ernesto Cardenal in Abide in Love We feel the Beloved's presence
Gershon Schwartz, Michael Katz in Swimming in the Sea of Talmud Upon seeing someone of exceptional ugliness
Diana Eck in God at 2000 When we take off our shoes
Thomas Keating in Active Meditations for Contemplative Prayer People who injure us are doing us
Andre Dubus in Meditations from a Movable Chair A sacrament is physical
David Steindl-Rast in I will Not Die and Unlived Life The antidote to exhaustion may not be
Nilton Bonder in Working on God A hasid complains to his rebbe
Matthew Fox in Creation Spirituality We all share beauty
Shaun McNiff in Earth Angels It is often the apparently inconsequential action
Thich Nhat Hanh in The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching The First Training is about reverence for life
Mariana Caplan in The Way of Failure "Bad" situations in life
Leonardo Boff in The Prayer of St. Francis This attitude of reverence and affection
Rav Kook in Meetings with the Archangel It is our right to hate the actions
Joyce Rupp in Dear Heart, Come Home I like food that is flavorful
Joseph Telushkin in Jewish Wisdom It is not in our power to explain
Dag Hammarskjold in Senses Wide Open When we come to a point of rest
Ahron Rokeach of Belz in Hasidic Wisdom One can learn a useful lesson from everything
Arthur P. Ciaramicoli, Katherine Ketcham in Power of Empathy We don't know enough to make judgments