Spiritual Practice involves being constantly aware

For me, spiritual practice is a lot closer to art than science.

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

My spiritual practice reminds me of what's really real, what's really hood.

I believe that meditation is the highest spiritual practice, the pathway to God.

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

Above all, cancer is a spiritual practice that teaches me about faith and resilience.

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

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.

I think having a good yoga practice and a spiritual practice is a recipe for living well and, hopefully, living longer.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.

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.

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

Forgiveness is a spiritual practice and biblical mandate from the New Testament that many American Christians engage in as a part of their faith.

A fully engaged imagination is essential to the spiritual practice of the Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana School, whose artistic tradition is in service of consciousness transformation.

I would support a mass civil disobedience where we take medicine to tell the state that they have absolutely no right to control our consciousness and to define our spiritual practice.

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.

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.

Both my parents were agnostic. My mother was kind of a Buddhist. She had some spiritual tendencies, but they were kind of flaky - New Agey, you know? Which is partly why I'm suspicious of that sort of thing. I'm skeptical of any spiritual practice that doesn't involve other people and doesn't involve some sort of consistent tradition.

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