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