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 believe that meditation is the highest spiritual practice, the pathway to God.
Forgiveness is a spiritual practice and biblical mandate from the New Testament that many American Christians engage in as a part of their faith.
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.
Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
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.
Above all, cancer is a spiritual practice that teaches me about faith and resilience.
For me, spiritual practice is a lot closer to art than science.
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
