Top 100 Spiritual Practice Quotes
#1. The source of your mind is love and whatever you do to go to that source, is spiritual practice.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#2. The way you get more is by having a daily spiritual practice.
Iyanla Vanzant
#3. All spiritual practice must be directed to the removal of the husk and the revelation of the kernel.
Sathya Sai Baba
#4. Do not allow consumerism to dictate your spiritual practice. You need nothing more than your focused attention to gain enlightenment.
Gary Hopkins
#5. 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
#6. The most effective intention is a desire for a conscious contact with your soul, a deeper connection to your Self. This is the most powerful purpose to intend every time you meditate, pray, or do any spiritual practice.
Derek Rydall
#7. Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.
Sharon Salzberg
#8. I have a spiritual practice which helps to keep me grounded and centered. Yoga is vital because it keeps me in full awareness and connection with my breath. I keep a gratitude log, which helps to remind me of all the blessings I experience daily.
Grace Gealey
#9. I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.
Marianne Williamson
#10. The important point of spiritual practice is not to try to escape your life, but to face it - exactly and completely.
Dainin Katagiri
#11. In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity.
Radhanath Swami
#12. Climbing Jacob's Ladder is a gutsy, glowing account of one man's encounter with a potent spiritual practice and how it transformed his life. This is a precious book - that rare combination of solid wisdom and good literature.
Larry Dossey
#13. Meditation and spiritual practice are good, but also action. It's very important to be clear about who you are, and also about your relation to the Earth. Develop yourself according to your own tradition and the call of your heart. But remember to respect differences, and strive for unity.
Carlos Barrios
#14. Spiritual Practice involves being constantly aware
Radhe Maa
#15. 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
#16. People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day.
Marianne Williamson
#17. Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously.
Eckhart Tolle
#18. 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
#19. One of the goals of a spiritual practice is self-awareness, and one of the best tools of self-awareness is simple emotional vulnerability.
Moby
#20. Education has to be welcomed as a Spiritual Practice for the establishment of Peace in the individual heart as well as in society including the human commonwealth.
Sai Baba
#21. It helps to remember that our spiritual practice is not about accomplishing anything - not about winning or losing - but about ceasing to struggle and relaxing as it is.
Pema Chodron
#22. 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
#23. As Carl Jung once said, 'When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.' When our boys become adults, we become their inner situation. We become inner voices they often hear in their work, relationships and spiritual practice.
Michael Gurian
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. Selfliss giving rounds the edges in spiritual practice. Many people can meditate very well but they're still very egotistical.
Frederick Lenz
#27. Mindfulness is both a state of being and a daily spiritual practice, a form of meditation.
David Richo
#28. Complete surrender usually happens through living. Your very life is the ground where that happens. There may be a partial surrender and then there may be an opening, and then you may engage in spiritual practice.
Eckhart Tolle
#29. Integrating the fullness of the human condition into one's spiritual practice is what leads to emotional sobriety.
Ingrid Mathieu
#30. Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves.
Frederick Lenz
#31. Love is a spiritual practice that matures us as we try and try again to leave behind our isolation, expose our vulnerabilities, and make commitments to care truly for one another.
Nanette Sawyer
#32. For me, spiritual practice is a lot closer to art than science.
Liz Williams
#33. Shamanism is a kind of universal spiritual practice with indigenous cultures around the world, and one important element of it is taking care of spirits.
Daniel Pinchbeck
#34. With a strong sense of the imminence of death, you will feel the need to engage in spiritual practice, improving your mind and not wasting your time on various distractions ranging from eating and drinking to endless talk about war, romance, and gossip.
Dalai Lama XIV
#35. Our lives have no outcome other than death, just as rivers have no end other than the ocean. At the moment of death, our only recourse is spiritual practice, and our only friends the virtuous actions we have accomplished during our lifetime.
Dilgo Khyentse
#36. I believe joy is a spiritual practice.
Brene Brown
#37. It is a wonderful thing if one can use one's place of work as a place of spiritual practice as well.
Dalai Lama
#38. A primary goal of the spiritual life is to learn to quiet the mind through prayer and meditation, through spiritual practice, so that we can hear what in both Judaism and Christianity, is called the small, still voice within.
Marianne Williamson
#39. Forgiveness is a process, an admittedly difficult one that often can feel like a rigorous spiritual practice.
Sharon Salzberg
#40. Spiritual practice ... involves, on the one hand, acting out of concern for others' well-being. On the other, it entails transforming ourselves so that we become more readily disposed to do so.
Dalai Lama
#41. Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.
Grace Lee Boggs
#42. A simple but radical spiritual practice is to accept whatever arises in the Now, within and without.
Eckhart Tolle
#43. Tantra is for the advanced spiritual practitioner who is ready to push aside spiritual practice in the name of spiritual practice.
Frederick Lenz
#44. If you think of spiritual practice as unpleasant work - it is not spiritual practice as I know it.
Frederick Lenz
#45. All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.
Jack Kornfield
#46. Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.
Jack Kornfield
#47. 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
#48. When we are alone with God, the Spirit prays in us. The challenge is to develop a simple discipline or spiritual practice to embrace some empty time and empty space every day.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#49. Only the broken heart has the ghost of a chance to grieve, to forgive, to long, to transform.
Christina Baldwin, author of Life's Companion, Journal Writing as a Spiritual Practice, 1990. Used with author's permission
Judith-Victoria Douglas
#50. I strove to maintain a spiritual practice, but since I was being pulled in so many directions, I couldn't seem to stay steady and grounded. I used to get overwhelmed when I thought about everything there was to do, and I was exhausted much of the time.
Brenda Strong
#51. 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
#52. The greatest spiritual practice is to transform love into service
Sai Baba
#53. Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time.
Julia Cameron
#54. Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer. Crying includes all the principles of Yoga.
Kripalvanandji
#55. 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
#56. People become depressed when they neglect their spiritual practice.
Dharma Mittra
#57. 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
#58. Try your best not to get distracted from your goal. Let everything you do be your way of getting closer to your enlightenment; never take a vacation from spiritual practice.
Sharon Gannon
#59. Above all, cancer is a spiritual practice that teaches me about faith and resilience.
Kris Carr
#60. Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too.
Eric Weiner
#61. You receive the light through what you read, through what you hear in meditation, or through some spiritual practice.
Marianne Williamson
#63. Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.
Julia Cameron
#65. 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
#66. Ethics is at the center of both spiritual practice and social transformation. Without a strong ethical foundation, we inevitably fall into contradictions-between means and ends, between our actions and our ideals. (p. 9)
Donald Rothberg
#67. DO NOT BE CONCERNED WITH THE FRUIT OF YOUR ACTION - just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord. This is a powerful spiritual practice.
Eckhart Tolle
#68. 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
#69. One thing we have learned is this: bringing compassionate, unflinching awareness to gender dynamics in groups and communities is a remarkably powerful place to begin. As in all spiritual practice, deepening awareness is itself transformative.
William Keepin
#70. 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
#71. I've always thought of my writing as a spiritual practice. But I think that fiction is the most supernatural kind of writing that you can do because of the ways that the real and the unreal weave together to create something that feels more true than anything.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#72. My personal opinion is that the neutral position on the mood spectrum - what I called emotional sea level - is not
happiness but rather contentment and the calm acceptance that is the goal of many kinds of spiritual practice.
Andrew Weil
#74. My introduction to medicinal plants transformed my health and my life, and enhanced and expanded my spiritual practice by connecting me deeply with the Earth, changing my life in the best, most enjoyable ways possible. I am forever grateful.
Robin Rose Bennett
#75. I know some teachers say that you shouldn't display the psychic powers and other powers referred to as the siddhas, but as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't really matter. There are no absolute rights or wrongs in spiritual practice
Frederick Lenz
#76. If you become obsessive in spiritual practice, if you just try and try, you are not going to be happy. You are going to be obsessive.
Frederick Lenz
#77. If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.
Ramakrishna
#78. Everywhere I looked, hope existed - but only as some kind of green shoot in the midst of struggle. It was a theological concept, not a spiritual practice. Hope, I began to realize, was not a state of life. It was at best a gift of life.
Joan D. Chittister
#79. It's perfectly natural for me to sit down and talk about meditating and spiritual practice with my friends. But then I realize, how would it sound to a drunk cynical guy in London?
Moby
#80. 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
#81. People who meditate and have a good spiritual practice, their immune systems are stronger. Generally, they are happier and healthier.
Moby
#82. Try to gather the strength to live as brother and sister after one or two children are born. This is essential for reaping the full benefit of spiritual practice and to make spiritual progress through mental restraint.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#83. When something makes no sense, sometimes you make something of it. A joke. A spiritual practice. A life.
Heather Sellers
#84. There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
Stanislav Grof
#85. 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
#86. A lot of people have realized that a good spiritual practice and a good meditation practice have real benefit. It's not just something nice to do to make the universe happy.
Moby
#87. 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
#88. You should not delay the good things in life. Just do them. Whenever you get a chance to do spiritual practice or seva, don't miss it. Those are the real precious moments of your life.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#89. Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin to wake up to a larger connection. After a while, people tend to find that there is some muse that they are connecting to.
Julia Cameron
#90. 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
#91. Joy is not just about being happy. Joy is a rigorous spiritual practice of saying yes to life on life's terms
Mark Matousek
#92. 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
#93. A lot of times people do spiritual practice just for themselves. I try to turn that a little bit. I try to make spiritual practice more a part of the community. I write about infusing people with compassion.
Sakyong Mipham
#94. It's not our job to pick up another's fears or even their strengths. Work on your own fears and strengths, that's your spiritual practice.
Art Hochberg
#95. 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
#96. People who are meditating every day and involved in a serious spiritual practice don't usually wake up in the morning and want to rush out to eat a bunch of junk food.
Marianne Williamson
#97. Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated.
David Deida
#98. Daily habits can anchor your thoughts and feelings just as readily as any spiritual practice or yoga class.
Jeffrey Brantley
#99. Many wealthy people donate, and while the skeptical may claim that they do so for tax breaks, there is another reason involved ... as a spiritual practice.
Stephen Richards
#100. Many people who come to spiritual practice are frightened by their feelings. They hope meditation will help them to transcend the messiness of the world and leave them invulnerable to difficult feelings. But this is a false transcendence, a denial of life. It is fear masquerading as wisdom.
Jack Kornfield
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