Spiritual Practice Quotes
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Spiritual Practice Quotes & Sayings
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Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.
— Sharon Salzberg
It probably takes many years of monastic practice to equal the spiritual growth generated by one sleepless night with a sick child.
— Douglas Abrams
Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.
— Jack Kornfield
It is a wonderful thing if one can use one's place of work as a place of spiritual practice as well.
— Dalai Lama
With practice, you will find that not resisting holds the secret to many spiritual experiences, including the ability to love.
— Deepak Chopra
All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.
— Jack Kornfield
An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.
— Jack Kornfield
If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
— Douglas Coupland
Joy is not just about being happy. Joy is a rigorous spiritual practice of saying yes to life on life's terms
— Mark Matousek
If you think of spiritual practice as unpleasant work - it is not spiritual practice as I know it.
— Frederick Lenz
Asceticism, also called ascesis, is the practice of rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint and is performed as a spiritual discipline. Like
— Randi Fredricks, Ph.D.
Practice being still amidst the chaos. This and only this will guide you where you need to be, to a place of infinite wisdom and inner peace.
— Patience W. Smith
Daily habits can anchor your thoughts and feelings just as readily as any spiritual practice or yoga class.
— Jeffrey Brantley
The person who constantly studies without doing spiritual practice is like the fool who attempts to live in the blueprint of a house.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.
— Marianne Williamson
Learning to celebrate joy is one of the great practices of the spiritual life.
— Joan D. Chittister
A simple but radical spiritual practice is to accept whatever arises in the Now, within and without.
— Eckhart Tolle
There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
— Stanislav Grof
A mind that practices love cannot love.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
A regular meditation practice is one of the highest forms of self-love.
— Renae A. Sauter
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
— James Broughton
Peace never hurries. To rush or force is contradictory to the very essence of peace.
— Alaric Hutchinson
Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too.
— Eric Weiner
I believe joy is a spiritual practice.
— Brene Brown
All spiritual practice must be directed to the removal of the husk and the revelation of the kernel.
— Sathya Sai Baba
By growing a spiritual practice, we are given all that we need.
— Gabrielle Bernstein
If you practice the holy exercise of Spiritual Communion a good many times each day, within a month you will see yourself completely changed.
— Leonard Of Port Maurice
It is often the simple daily practices that influence our lives in dramatic ways.
— Alaric Hutchinson
I am so glad that Jesus does not say, "Practice more spiritual disciplines." He says, "Come to me ... and I will give you rest.
— Colin S. Smith
The important point of spiritual practice is not to try to escape your life, but to face it - exactly and completely.
— Dainin Katagiri
Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation.
— Swami Vivekananda
By wholesome I mean balanced. There is nothing more devastating to the practice of spiritual living than an imbalance.
— Charles C. Ryrie
Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.
— Grace Lee Boggs
Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.
— Jack Kornfield
I'm not even sure that Buddhism is a religion really. It seems like more of just a spiritual practice, I'd compare it more to Taoism than religion.
— Sienna McQuillen
My yoga practice was and will always be a spiritual experience. I can honestly say, "Yoga delivered me back to GOD!"
— Faith Hunter
I think deep down I'm spiritual, but there's nothing I practice.
— Stella McCartney
One ounce of the practice of righteousness and of spiritual Self-realisation outweighs tons and tons of frothy talk and nonsensical sentiments.
— Swami Vivekananda
But to take delight in our generosity helps us immeasurably in our spiritual practice.
— Sharon Salzberg
Tantra is for the advanced spiritual practitioner who is ready to push aside spiritual practice in the name of spiritual practice.
— Frederick Lenz
To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.
— Gautama Buddha
Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
— Jack Kornfield
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
— Marianne Williamson
The way you get more is by having a daily spiritual practice.
— Iyanla Vanzant
Do not allow consumerism to dictate your spiritual practice. You need nothing more than your focused attention to gain enlightenment.
— Gary Hopkins
Mindfulness is both a state of being and a daily spiritual practice, a form of meditation.
— David Richo
Art is a spiritual practice. If it weren't for art, I'd have given up on God a long time ago. This cathedral though....is very convincing.
— Janice Macleod
Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves.
— Frederick Lenz
God wants us to realize that the point of our practice isn't to receive the praise of others. It's to bring him glory.
— Bob Kauflin
Your discipline or lack of discipline will protect you from or expose you to disaster. Practice discipline. Be consistent.
— Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time.
— Julia Cameron
Selfliss giving rounds the edges in spiritual practice. Many people can meditate very well but they're still very egotistical.
— Frederick Lenz
Forgiveness is a process, an admittedly difficult one that often can feel like a rigorous spiritual practice.
— Sharon Salzberg
If as spiritual practitioners we ignore the discoveries of science, our practice is also impoverished, as this mind-set can lead to fundamentalism.
— Dalai Lama XIV
You receive the light through what you read, through what you hear in meditation, or through some spiritual practice.
— Marianne Williamson
Failure is only practice that prepares you for the real life experiences.
— Angela Khristin Brown
True wisdom is the skill and practice of death.
— C.S. Lewis
When something makes no sense, sometimes you make something of it. A joke. A spiritual practice. A life.
— Heather Sellers
The aim of all spiritual practice is love.
— Sathya Sai Baba
It's really a spiritual practice that I am trying to show as a way of life.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
Practice radical humility when it comes to your own accomplishments, and give credit everywhere except to your ego.
— Wayne Dyer
Skillfully engaging in intimate relationships can be one of the most potent spiritual practices.
— John Friend
The source of your mind is love and whatever you do to go to that source, is spiritual practice.
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The most holy and important practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God - that is, every moment to take great pleasure that God is with you
— Brother Lawrence