Recent Spiritual Practices of the Day

Dean Sluyter in The Zen Commandments Scrawl it on your wall
Macrina Wiederkehr in Behold Your Life God of my early childhood, help me
Daphne Rose Kingma in The Book of Love Compliments are the verbal nourishment
Lama Surya Das in Awakening the Buddhist Heart Ram Dass would always say, "Hold on tight"
Christopher Titmuss in Light on Enlightenment It is only natural to appreciate the recognition
Being Good If you keep your practice steady
Ruth Smeltzer in What Jesus Meant You have not lived
Henri Nouwen in Raw Faith I can only fly freely
Wendell Berry in A Timbered Choir When we work well, a Sabbath mood
Lin Yutang in Zen and the Art of Anything If you can spend
William Penn in The Gift of Prayer God, help us not to despise
Jack Kornfield in After the Ecstasy, the Laundry Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal
Peter Reinhart in Bread Upon the Waters The fastest way to know God is
Mark Epstein in Going on Being One who can tolerate his own terror
Leonard Sweet in A Cup of Coffee at the Soul Cafe Our duty is not to see through one another . . .
Ajahn Sumano Bhikkhu in Meeting the Monkey Halfway Do good, get good
His Holiness The Dalai Lama in Healing Anger My enemy helps me
Jelaluddin Rumi in Traveling Mercies Where there is ruin
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in Silent Hope We only have to go a little beyond
Abraham Joshua Heschel in The Way Into Jewish Prayer To pray is to dream
Wayne Muller in Sabbath At our best, we become Sabbath
Brenda Peterson in American Nature Writing 1994 The Hopi Indians of Arizona believe
Lawrence Kushner in Invisible Lines of Connection By doing what your lover wants
Damaris Parker-Rhodes in Plain Living If I am very aware
Ayya Khema in Be an Island There is a story about Achaan Cha
J. Krishnamurti in The Zen of Listening To observe without evaluating
Diarmuid O'Murchu in Poverty, Celibacy, and Obedience One of Jesus' favorite visual aids
Richard Rohr in Hope Against Darkness It it not over there
Ayya Khema in Be an Island To be nobody does not mean
Glenn H. Mullin in Gems of Wisdom from the Seventh Dalai Lama In Tibet, practitioners would sometimes