Spiritual Practice Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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