Whatever your spiritual practice is, if it's not making you more honest in your relationships, it's not working
Whatever your spiritual practice is, if it's not making you more honest in your relationships, it's not working
I can't stress this enough
If your spiritual practice is not deepening your honesty, making you braver in relationship, bringing you closer to the beautiful mess of real human connection, it's not helping you
Chasing holiness, righteousness and bliss will keep you shallow
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Tweet From Cory Muscara
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"It is not enough for a man to feel the divine flame burning in him; unless he goes into the concentrated, slogging business of learning the techniques of expression, his genius will be of no use to anyone." —Oswald Chambers
Matt Cardin • Tweet
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Without the alignment of view, practice, and fruit, the spiritual path doesn’t accomplish anything of substance. For many people, that doesn’t really matter, since spirituality is basically a hobby for them, even if they wouldn’t say so.
Christopher D. Wallis • Near Enemies of the Truth: Avoid the Pitfalls of the Spiritual Life and Become Radically Free
Consciousness is being, compassion is feeling, creativity is action.
Osho • Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within (Osho Insights for a New Way of Living)
Your spiritual practice is solid when, over time, your experience opens up more and more dimensions and nuances and you're generally gaining clarity, like an aperture that's ever widening.
Things just appear more as what they are, and you're exploring new ways of (un)seeing.
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