Sentences with phrase «many spiritual practices»

I have a fairly deep spiritual practice in general, but this year with all the craziness, with all the angst in the world around us, with the challenges that are had, it really deepens the need to be present, and the joy that comes from being more deeply present.

The government and the churches discouraged potlaches and dances, ridiculed and undercut traditional spiritual practices.

Denai Vaughn interviewed Mari about relationship marketing and spiritual practices.

It is a spiritual practice, so I can learn to spend more time with God.

Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa both used the spiritual practice.

Another way to frame this would be to say that I slowly came to see leadership as a spiritual practice.

As a spiritual practice, leadership is as demanding as any other, and yet as promising and transformative as well.

In this story two related elements of leadership as a spiritual practice are evident: first, leaders lead.

Is this audacious move also part of leadership as a spiritual practice?

This too is a good skill for pastors and part of the spiritual practice of leadership.

But this gets to the very heart of leadership as a spiritual practice: it is not about the leader.

And I have felt the many ways Jesus reaches out his hand to catch me — in the love of family and friends, the sustenance of spiritual practice, the bonds of community and the moments of unexplainable peace in the midst of the struggle and the failure.

From the moment I met her, I knew Traci was the kind of mom I wanted to be: playful, empathetic, and deliberate about integrating spiritual practices into her family's everyday life.

Likewise, meditation and prayer are core spiritual practices for Christ - followers.

In Faithful Families: Creating Sacred Moments at Home, Rev. Traci Smith, a Presbyterian pastor and mama of three, offers super-practical, creative ideas for developing spiritual practices as a family.

By itself, the Enneagram doesn't have much to offer, but when combined with prayer, Bible study, and other spiritual practices, it can be extremely helpful.

Such a God reeducates our disordered desires and calls our heartless society back to the spiritual practices of compassion, solidarity and justice - building with the marginalized and the humiliated in our midst.

Given this interest in spiritual practices and things monastic, it is not surprising that more and more people are practicing the daily office (also called «divine office,» «office,» «liturgy of the hours» or «common prayer»).

Spiritual practices may take the form of meditation but will not be understood as conversation with an external personal being.

For us, it doesn't much matter if different pictures of such things (or different names for God, or different primary spiritual practices, etc.) are varied.

These spiritual practices help me focus in on the things that concern my heart and emotions to level things out.

Literal human sacrifice comes to mind as one such spiritual practice.

Re: «Since you use a symbol from a spiritual practice I guess I can assume that you are just on this blog to argue with people, you really do not believe anything.»

There is a wide range of spiritual practices that one might do on their own that does not include believing in any of the things you mentioned.

The ultimate spiritual practice is the cross.

The «I» that decides to take up spiritual practice, most often to strengthen itself, must itself die.

Instead, we adopt spiritual practices and attitudes and beliefs, all as an avoidance of the real work... taking up the cross!

A former youth minister, she's passionate about monasticism and ancient Christian spiritual practices and how they inform the contemporary life of faith.

But individual spiritual practices will ultimately be for the sake of the transformation of the global situation.

More than an intellectual manifesto, the invitation pledges signers to specific spiritual practices: maintaining a vital prayer life, conducting works of mercy and engaging in a regular Friday fast «as a form of prayerful resistance to the idolatrous practices of our culture.»

Instead, we adopt spiritual practices and attitudes and beliefs, all as an avoidance of the real workâ $ ¦ taking up the cross!»

Christians who seek to live from and toward the basileia theou find that they have personal, existential, psychological, and spiritual needs that are not always met by their participation in community with other Christians or by spiritual practices developed in these communities.

Read about spiritual practices that encourage humility.

Effective pastors who do not «burn out» have generally developed a prayer life, moral virtues and spiritual practices that sustain and nurture them.

I can experience serenity and peace via spiritual practices like prayer and meditation.

Ultimately these conversations about end - of - life care tie into the ancient spiritual practice of honoring our parents and caring for the elderly.

We have to learn how to be friends... intimacy with God is developed through intentional spiritual practices and habits... Such habits form us into people of virtue capable of living as the friends of God we are created to be,» Makant says.

Religious and spiritual practices are generally approached on an «as - needed» basis and discarded or changed when no longer necessary.

Well, I agree that confession of sins to one another is a valuable spiritual practice.

I believe this practice, however, is the most basic and fundamental spiritual practice, and when a person learns to live life with God, this allows God to speak into their mind, and work in their life in ways that lead to other spiritual practices.

She recently contributed an essay on spiritual practices to Practicing Theology: Beliefs and Practices in Christian Life, edited by Miroslav Volf and Dorothy C. Bass.

Such a suggestion is easier said than done, but this is true of all spiritual practices.

They teach spiritual practices to transcend the mind and ego.

For Hauerwas and Marshall, the postliberal turn to Aquinas and the spiritual practices of the liturgical churches is linked to the original postliberal project of rethinking Christian orthodoxy in a postliberal spirit.

(219) For Walsh, we have seen, this spiritual practice is essentially identical to the synthesis of freedom and universal humanist morality that Kant first evokes.

But now the original sense of pilgrimage as a concretely physical spiritual practice is being recovered by broad sections of the Christian community and by people beyond the church's walls as well.

It's important to engage in spiritual practices which work for you, but for those of us on the intellectual end of the spectrum, there's a real risk of emotional disengagement.

but fortunately there are psychologists, mental health practitioners and others who do and I have benefitted greatly from their work, personal testimonies and the various articles / publications which they have produced --(for example, The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology; The Religious & Spiritual Problems category in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (DSM - IV) published by the American Psychiatric Association; The US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health PubMed.gov database of healthcare and scientific literature)-- about the adverse psychological effects which can arise when persons engage in intense / deep spiritual practices such as intense / deep prayer, fasting and meditation which alter their state of consciousness.

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

On researching my experiences I discovered that when some persons engage in intense spiritual practices like intense prayer, meditation etc. it induces psychotic and psychic symptoms as I described above.