Spiritual Practice Quotes

• There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day.

  Pema Chodron

  Spiritual, Practice, Four

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• Spiritual practice is not just sitting and meditation. Practice is looking, thinking, touching, drinking, eating and talking. Every act, every breath, and every step can be practice and can help us to become more ourselves.

  Nhat Hanh

  Spiritual, Drinking, Thinking

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teaching s from the beloved Zen teacher”, p.151, Shambhala Publications

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• I encourage people to have a daily spiritual practice; that's the best way to take care of yourself. If you have that daily practice, it means you're getting divine guidance, and you're not being guided by your ego or your personality.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Spiritual, Mean, People

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• The source of your mind is love and whatever you do to go to that source, is spiritual practice.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Spiritual, Practice, Mind

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• We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple, as a place to discover that which is sacred.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Practice

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• You can think of spiritual practice as a kind of spiritual re-parenting ... You're offering yourself the two qualities that make up good parenting: understanding - seeing yourself for who you truly are - and relating to what you see with unconditional love.

  Tara Brach

  Spiritual, Unconditional Love, Thinking

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• I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you have right attitude toward others based on kindness, compassion, love and respect.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Attitude, Kindness

  "The Dalai Lama In Depth". "Yoga Journal" Interview, No. 90, (p. 51), January - February 1990.

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• 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

  Love, Forgiveness, Spiritual

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• The aim of all spiritual practice is love.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Wise, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated.

  David Deida

  Spiritual, Hurt, Practice

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• The heart of most spiritual practices is simply this: Remember who you are. Remember what you love. Remember what is sacred. Remember what is true. Remember that you will die and that this day is a gift. Remember how you wish to live.

  Wayne Muller

  Spiritual, Heart, Practice

  Wayne Muller (2013). “How Then, Shall We Live?: Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives”, p.233, Bantam

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• When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.

  Jack Kornfield

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Heart

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• Human beings will continue to deceive and overpower one another. Basically, everyone exists in the very nature of suffering, so to abuse or mistreat each other is futile. The foundation of all spiritual practice is love. That you practice this well is my only request.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Practice, Abuse

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.329, Penguin Books India

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• Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Practice

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.15, New World Library

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• 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

  Spiritual, Practice, Soul

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.

  Sting

  Spiritual, Yoga, Journey

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  If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Dalai Lama, Victor Chan (2012). “The Wisdom of Compassion: Stories of Remarkable Encounters and Timeless Insights”, p.11, Random House

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• Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Spiritual, Practice, Community

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  Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.

  Dallas Willard

  Spiritual, Practice, People

  Dallas Willard (2012). “Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God”, p.288, InterVarsity Press

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• We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Children, Fear

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• There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

  Stanislav Grof

  Spiritual, Practice, Differences

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• As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.

  Christy Turlington

  Spiritual, Pain, Practice

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• It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Fear, Light

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortune into the path.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Practice

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.164, Penguin Books India

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• Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

  James Broughton

  Spiritual, Practice, Ecstasy

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