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• Many people hope a spiritual practice will let them avoid what they are ashamed of. But when you hide something from yourself, you are going to project it onto your world. You continually find it in others and it becomes the source of prejudices and dogmatic views. On top of that, you feel bad about yourself, because you aren't the loving, open-minded, "spiritual" person you'd like to be.

  Pema Chodron

  Spiritual, Views, Practice

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• I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Teaching, Practice

  "Gabrielle Bernstein Interviews Marianne Williamson: Sister Giant". Interview with Gabrielle Bernstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2012.

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• Spiritual Practice involves being constantly aware

  Shri Radhe Maa

  Spiritual, Practice

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• Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time.

  Julia Cameron

  Spiritual, Creativity, Practice

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Aug 05, 2012

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• When we understand clearly that inner peace is the real source of happiness, and how, through spiritual practice, we can experience progressively deeper levels of inner peace, we will develop tremendous enthusiasm to practice

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.9, Tharpa Publications UK

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• Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Commitment, Dedication

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.8, Random House

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• Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no authentic Tantra without profound commitment, discipline, courage, and a sense of wild, foolhardy, fearless abandon.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Commitment

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• Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of one's true being. All efforts are to be directed simply to removing the veil of ignorance. Concentrating the mind solely on the Self will lead to happiness or bliss. Drawing in the thoughts, restraining them and preventing them from straying outwards is called detachment (vairagya). Fixing them in the Self is spiritual practice (sadhana). Concentrating on the heart is the same as concentrating on the Self. Heart is another name for Self.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Spiritual, Heart, Ignorance

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• Our compassion is the fruit of our spiritual lives; it actually arises spontaneously when formed by intention in our spiritual practice. Love and compassion are always the goods of the spiritual journey, and they are guided by divine wisdom, which then shapes compassion in the concrete situations of our existence.

  Wayne Teasdale

  Spiritual, Journey, Compassion

  Wayne Teasdale (2010). “A Monk in the World: Cultivating a Spiritual Life”, p.125, New World Library

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• Most pointedly, nature-based people manifest the very qualities that contemporary psychotherapy, the recovery movement, and spiritual practices continually aim for: a visible sense of inner peace, unselfconscious humility, an urge to communal cooperation, and heartfelt appreciation for the world around them.

  Chellis Glendinning

  Spiritual, Appreciation, Recovery

  Chellis Glendinning (2007). “My Name Is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization”

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• Mindfulness is both a state of being and a daily spiritual practice, a form of meditation.

  David Richo

  Spiritual, Practice, Meditation

  David Richo (2008). “The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them”, p.17, Shambhala Publications

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• We can remove the blocks to realizing our Higher Power by experiencing (including living in the Now), remembering, forgiving and surrendering (these five realizations can be viewed as being ultimately the same). Regular spiritual practices help us with this realization. (138)

  Charles L. Whitfield

  Spiritual, Block, Practice

  Charles L. Whitfield (2010). “Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families (Recovery Classics Edition)”, p.139, Health Communications, Inc.

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• A garden is the place millions of people go to touch the earth, to smell flowers - to use some of that fabled human brain power in the cause of better participating with natural processes in the place they call home. It serves as an art project, an organic produce market, a spiritual practice, a pharmacy. It offers ongoing lessons in ecology, biology, chemistry, geology, meteorology. Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time. It bestows on its practitioners a genuine sense of admiration for the plants, the soil, the sun, the water.

  Jim Nollman

  Spiritual, Art, Flower

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• Our practices - our most spiritual practices - are hanging laundry on the line, raising children, building strong relationships, practicing kindness as much as we can, striving for excellence in the workplace, and developing deeper self-knowledge. I wrote The Four Purposes of Life to assist in these endeavors.

  Dan Millman

  Spiritual, Strong, Kindness

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• A woman recently told me a story about her descent into chronic fatigue. She was sleeping sixteen, eighteen hours a day, and feeling more tired when she woke up than when she went to bed. She really wanted to go to a workshop and she went anyway. And when she was there, she felt much less tired. So she decided, "Maybe if I continue to follow what I really want to do at all times, I will feel less tired." This was her spiritual practice - - to only do the things that she wanted to, and to not make choices based on anything else. That is an embracing of pleasure, of joy, of good feelings.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Spiritual, Tired, Sleep

  Source: www.mindfulnessbell.org

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• Although natural farming - since it can teach people to cultivate a deep understanding of nature - may lead to spiritual insight, it's not strictly a spiritual practice.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Spiritual, Practice, Deep Understanding

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• By growing a spiritual practice, we are given all that we need.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Spiritual, Practice, Needs

  "May Cause Miracles | Author Gabrielle Bernstein Interview: Rachel P. Goldstein". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You impose limits on your true nature of infinite being. Then you get displeased to be only a limited creature. Then you begin spiritual practices to transcend these non-existing limits. But if your practice itself implies the existence of these limits, how could they allow you to transcend them.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Spiritual, Practice, Limits

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• One of the most commonly overlooked spiritual practices is daring to be completely honest with everyone you encounter. Some may say others cannot handle their honesty, but true honesty is not a strategy or a weapon of any kind. It is the willingness to be open and absolutely transparent in sharing how any moment feels in your heart. It has nothing to do with confrontation, accusation, or any form of blame. True honesty is the willingness to stand completely exposed, allowing the world to do what it may, and say what it will, only so you may know who you are - beyond all ideas.

  Matthew Kahn

  Spiritual, Honesty, Heart

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• In my path, three things are really important. One is associating with people who inspire us with their positive influence. The company we keep is very important. Number two is our spiritual practice. Putting aside sacred time every day to make that journey within, to tune into the frequency of our true nature and the love and the grace that is within us. Number three is to try living with ethical, moral and spiritual values, which culminates in unselfish service.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Journey, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Self, Practice

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.37, Advaita Ashrama

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• Only by spiritual practice can we break through our karma and the effects of the causes we have made. Only then can we escape from them. It matters not whether you have acquired any merit. Merit is merit. Karma is karma. Nonetheless, if one practices the Quan Yin Method, one can be liberated regardless of having any merit or not. It is so logical, so scientific.

  Ching Hai

  Karma, Spiritual, Inspiration

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• There is a push and a pull almost like an isometric stretch. Our literal flexibility and our physical, psychological and spiritual practices are more important now than ever to balance the boat.

  Brenda Strong

  Spiritual, Practice, Balance

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• You receive the light through what you read, through what you hear in meditation, or through some spiritual practice.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Light, Practice

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• When we don't nourish ourselves with fresh, healthy food, restful sleep, regular exercise, a daily spiritual practice such as meditation or journaling, and other mind-body healing habits, we will inevitably feel tired, out of balance, irritable, and sometimes even depressed.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Healing, Tired

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