Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
Sometimes the most difficult, horrific things can be the greatest spiritual teachers.
The spiritual message is we lose our lives in pleasing others; if you're the good child who pleases Mommy and Daddy but internalizes anger, you're setting yourself up for disease.
Woe to the generation of sons who find their censers empty of the rich incense of prayer, whose fathers have been too busy or too unbelieving to pray, and perils inexpressible and consequences untold are their unhappy heritage.
All spiritual things are to be treated with sacred dignity. Humility and meekness are in accordance with the life of Christ, but they are to be shown in a dignified way.
Spiritual people don't float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.
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.
One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.
I don't think my work is about the spiritual life, but it certainly touches on it.
The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great.
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