Higher Power

The basic spiritual principle introduced in Step Two [of the Twelve Steps] suggests that there is a Power greater than ... [ourselves] that provides hope for sanity ...
(Hope For Today, 1 February)
28 April 2014

Gifts

God has given gifts to each of you from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Manage them well so that God's generosity can flow through you. He gives us more and more strength.
(The One Year Book Of Bible Readings, 17 September)
23 March 2014

Growth Ingredients

Our growth depends on our mental, physical, and spiritual health.  Yet too often we may spend more time on physical and mental growth than on spiritual growth.  When this happens, all three suffer. (Amy E. Dean, Night Light, 12 October)
2 November 2013

The Spiritual Life

The spiritual life is not abstract. It thrives on ritual, art, good words, and symbolic acts. These concrete actions bring the transition home physically, emotionally and intellectually. In this way you know you have gone through changes, and you can adjust accordingly. (Thomas Moore, Dark Nights Of The Soul, p. 34)
4 April 2013

Spiritual Journey

Aldous Huxley

"The spiritual journey does not consist in arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning one's self and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one's self."

(Aldous Huxley in The Power Of Intention by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, p. 18)

14 January 2013

Limitless Possibilities

The possibilities of following a spiritual program are limitless.

(after One Day At A Time In Al-Anon, 8 December)

10 December 2012

Spiritual Path

God, help me find the spiritual path in the choices I make today. Help me turn away from self-pity. (Touchstones, 3 December) 17 December 2012

Strive

• From childhood to death, humans, no matter their lot in life should strive to grow to get closer and closer to the spiritual life. 
• Strive to learn what God wants, and your life will become filled with freedom and joy. (Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar Of Wisdom, 15 October) 22 October 2012

Benefits

... I am confident that my continuing search for spiritual understanding will yield ever richer benefits.
(One Day At A Time In Al-Anon, 24 August)
27 September 2012)

Dropping Out

We cannot drop out of human involvement without endangering our spiritual health. (One Day At A Time In Al-Anon, 9 July) 13 August 2012

Distance

The more each of us lives by ... spiritual principles, the more we help each other, no matter how great a distance may separate us. (One Day At A Time In Al-Anon, 21 July) 25 July 2012

Door To Heaven

The door to heaven is opened to you to the same extent you want it.
Get rid of your troubles and problems, and direct your soul to spiritual things.
Be attentive, and fulfill your duty without thinking about the consequences.
You should not guide events, but be guided by events.
(Indian Wisdom in A Calendar Of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy, 22 July)
22 July 2012

Spiritual Relationship

Gradually, we see the events of our lives through the wisdom and detachment our spiritual relationship provides. (Touchstones, 29 May) 20 June 2012

Spiritual Progress

I will remember today that spiritual progress comes only when I make room for it in my life.
(Touchstones, 9 May) 20 May 2012

A Spiritual Person

A spiritual person walks with God in his heart, and he is not won over by what others say and do. (Thomas 'A Kempis, The Imitation Of Christ, Book 2, Chapter 6, p. 71) 8 March 2012

In God's Hands

I pray that I may follow God's guidance, so that spiritual success shall be mine.  I pray that I may never doubt the power of God and so take things into my own hands. (Twenty-Four Hours A Day, 19 February) 2 March 2012

Divine Guidance

As I continue on my spiritual journey, I will seek and follow Divine Guidance and know there is always a place prepared for me. (Twenty-Four Hours A Day, 29 February) 1 March 2012

Crossroads And Roadblocks

... when we reach a crossroads or a roadblock, we know that our Higher Power will come to our aid in making the right choices and surmounting all obstacles. (Twenty-Four Hours A Day, 29 February 2012)

I've found that you can't draw road maps for the Lord. I've tried that before. (Janice Clark, in Keepers Of The Wisdom by Karen Casey, 28 February)

How would your telling the story of your journey change if you viewed it as a demonstration of God's blessing you all along the way, as an expression of providential care for the whole creation? (The Upper Room Disciplines - 2008, 4 June)

I pray that I'll continue to seek guidance as my spiritual journey continues today. (Twenty-Four Hours A Day, 29 February 2012) 29 February 2012

Spiritual Journey

Photo: Mr. Dickie - Chadds Ford, PA

In our spiritual journey, we must begin with the premise that no person ever achieves perfection. (Touchstones, 8 February) 16 January 2012

Spiritual Awakenings

Photo: Mr. Dickie - Emmitsburg, MD

... we might well ponder what kind of society we would find ourselves in at this moment were it not for the great spiritual awakenings of the past.  (Selwyn Hughes, Every Day Light, Day 330) 28 December 2011