“Spiritual practice is direct experience. When we follow our breath in the Zen tradition,
“Spiritual practice is direct experience. When we follow our breath in the Zen tradition, or repeat the names of God in Islam, or kindle the Sabbath candles and welcome the Shekinah on Shabbat, or offer the light of a butter lamp to Mata Durga, we are harnessing timeless technologies precisely engineered to open the heart and transform consciousness. Practice knocks on the door of the soul and it opens to the presence of the sacred. It shifts us from the intellectual realms of theology into the embodied space of spirit as it pours into and animates all that is.”—Mirabai Starr in conversation with PARABOLA in our Fall 2014 issue on spiritual practiceRead the full interview here. -- source link
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