How Can We Live Spiritually?

Living Spiritually

Ordinary Life

You don’t have to spend years studying difficult books, learning foreign languages, or spending long periods in solitude. As long as you apply effort on a regular basis, you can use your ordinary daily life and human faculties as the tools for transforming your troubles into peace and happiness.

Spiritual Practice

Without going to any special place or adopting unusual customs, you already have everything you need for spiritual practice. Your sacred place of retreat is your body. Your daily life is your practice center. Your emotions, thoughts, and experiences are your instructors.

Your Mind Is Your Teacher
Your Mind Is Your Teacher

Khenpo Gawang

Listening To Our Inner Voice

Listening To Our Inner Voice

Space to Listen

Our mental chatter is often so prominent that we don’t have the space to truly listen. We’re always receiving direction about how to move in our lives, but we’re too distracted to hear it. We cloud our thinking with drama and emotional upheaval then wonder why our lives are so out of whack.

Deep Listening

Yet all of us have the capacity to listen if we’re willing to make the space for it. When we listen, the voice may appear as thoughts with words, a whisper, an image, or a knowing “Yes” to something we may not even realize we wanted or needed.

Following Through

Listening is the first step, and being willing to act on what we hear is the second. So, listen to the deepest part of your being – the part that just knows. Then have the courage to let your life unfold according to its rightful plan.

At the Core of Every Heart
At the Core of Every Heart

Gail Brenner

What Is Self-Compassion?

Self-Compassion

Compassion

At it’s heart, compassion is our ability to be present with and carry the suffering we encounter in others through a supportive bond.

Self-Compassion

Self-compassion is about facing our own difficulties and struggles with the same commitment and open-heartedness that we would bring to a person we love. Self-compassion involves awareness, understanding, and courage to be with suffering in a supportive way.

How to Be Nice to Yourself
How To Be Nice To Yourself: The Everyday Guide to Self-Compassion

Laura Silberstein-Tirch, PsyD