Resources

We are happy to offer suggestions for a variety of different spiritual practises. Whether you use them alone or in community, it is our sincerest wish that they serve to enhance your spirituality.

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The International Center for Reiki Training: We offer over 350 web pages and 150 articles covering every area of Reiki practice.
The Miracle Network is a UK-Registered Charity (reg. number 1108852), acting as a resource organisation for all things related to A Course in Miracles in the UK.
The association of Spiritual Retreats is the global resource for some of the best holistic treatments worldwide
The Association for Children's Spirituality seeks to promote and support research and practice in relation to children's spirituality within education and wider contexts of children's care and wellbeing.
The World Prayers archive attempts to be representative of all life affirming faiths and spiritual practices without preference to any one. It is our goal to make these great words available to everyone for study and appreciation. The prayers have been intuitively divided into four categories for the purpose of organization and navigation.
The Community Meditation Center is located on Manhattan s upper west side. With a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere the CMC offers classes, Insight Meditation (Vipassana) instruction and practice, daylong retreats, workshops, and social events.

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Findhorn Foundation : A spiritual community, ecovillage and international workshop centre, helping to unfold a new human consciousness and create a positive and sustainable future.
European Jesuit Spirituality Centres : All Jesuit Spirituality Centres in Europe. Retreat houses, most of which offer the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius Loyola
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A Sampling of Spiritual Practices

There are many, many possible spiritual practices. You can even make up your own! The key is to do them mindfully and consistently. Many of the programmes listed on our web site teach specific spiritual practices, but for those who just can't wait to get started, here are some ideas

Meditation

Sit quietly and comfortably keeping your back straight if possible. Focus your intention gently on your breathing. Do this for a few minutes a day at first and then keep extending the time. Do not worry when your attention wanders and thoughts intrude. When you notice this, simply draw your attention back to your breathing. This is the basis of meditation practice.

Gratitude

Keep a gratitude journal: At the end of each day, list three to five things for which you are grateful. This practice of gratitude will help you find more joy in the small everyday happenings of life. Whether or not you send it, write a letter to a someone who has had a positive effect on your life describing what they did and thanking them for it.

Words

Memorize Poetry or Scripture. These words will gradually become part of you. You may find that they return to support and inform your life in delightful and unexpected ways.

Journaling

Keep a journal of what you have noticed each day. There are many ways to do this, but the important thing is to notice your thoughts and feelings. At the end of each day, record at least one thing that surprised, moved, or inspired you. This will help you find greater meaning in everyday life.

Practise Mindfulness

Walk in the woods or any quiet place and focus on noticing everything that is coming to you through all of your senses. Notice the sights, sounds, and smells you encounter as you walk along. Feel the air on your skin and your feet on the ground. When you notice your attention has shifted to something outside of the present moment, gently bring it back. Be present in your daily chores. For example, do the washing up while focusing on nothing but the dishes, the water, the soap and your actions. Do art, such as drawing or painting. Be present to this activity and, if you notice your mind wandering, gently bring your thoughts back to the present moment and what you are doing.

Generosity

Give to others regularly - it brings us joy and satisfaction. Our giving need not be of material things - our time and attention are among the most precious gifts we have to give.

Spirituality Quotes

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. ~ Anais Nin

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. ~ Albert Einstein

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. ~ Anais Nin

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear. ~ Felix Adler

Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul. ~ Thomas Moore

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something completely great. ~ Willa Cather

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. ~ Carl Jung

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men. ~ Albert Einstein

The spiritual is the parent of the practical. ~ Thomas Carlyle

Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends. ~ John Ruskin

In the faces of men and women I see God. ~ Walt Whitman

God doesn't look at how much we do, but with how much love we do it. ~ Mother Teresa

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one. ~ Scott Peck

To love another person is to see the face of God ~ Victor Hugo

"Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life." ~ Maya Angelou

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience. ~ Teilhard de Chardin

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. ~ Thomas Merton

The candles are many, but the light is one. ~ Rumi

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

All things are bound together, all things connect. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls also the children of the earth. ~ Chief Oren Lyons

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us. ~ Marianne Williamson