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Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline. -- Mahavira
To make the mind obey you is a spiritual discipline. -- Sivananda
A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines. -- Andrew Weil
Together with worldly education, you have to cultivate the human values and undertake spiritual discipline. -- Sathya Sai Baba
The power of God tenderizes and changes us, not spiritual disciplines. Spiritual disciplines only position us to receive. -- Mike Bickle
We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail. -- Oswald Chambers
God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking. -- Catherine Marshall
The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be. -- Richard J. Foster
Keeping your body in shape is a spiritual discipline. Its not just about losing a few pounds, wanting to live longer, or trying to look nicer. -- Rick Warren
It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God. -- Henri Nouwen
Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one's love to it without compromise or dilution. -- Aberjhani
The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training. -- Jack Kornfield
Through the ages, countless spiritual disciplines have urged us to look within ourselves and seek the truth. Part of that truth resides in a small, dark room -- one we are afraid to enter -- Matthew J. Pallamary
A lot of people talk about the spirituality of Buddhism, and it is a spiritual discipline. But in Shambhala there also is a notion that you have to be synchronized with both heaven and earth. -- Sakyong Mipham
This is the greatest stumbling block in our spiritual discipline, which, in actuality, consists not in getting rid of the self but in realizing the fact that there is no such existence from the first. -- Thomas Merton
Tolerance, a term which we sometimes use in place of the words respect, mercy, generosity, or forbearance, is the most essential element of moral systems; it is a very important source of spiritual discipline and a celestial virtue of perfected people. -- Fethullah Gulen
Service is the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation, or knowledge of scripture and Vedanta (holy scriptures of India), cannot help you reach the goal as quickly as service can. Service has a double effect, it extinguishes the ego and gives bliss. -- Sathya Sai Baba
The organized churches must become schools of spiritual discipline where Christians are taught how to own without treasuring (Matt. 6:21); how to possess without, like the "rich young ruler," being possessed (Mark 10:22); how to live simply, even frugally, though controlling great wealth and power. -- Dallas Willard
I find when most people are honest about their spiritual pilgrimage, they admit to the difficulty of maintaining the habit of a spiritual discipline. What attracks me most about the Anglican spiritual tradition is that it provides purposeful spiritual direction in the life of Christ. -- Robert E. Webber
It's too bad prayer comes bundled in a package of 'spiritual disciplines.' Really, we should see prayer as a spiritual privilege. We don't do it as a callisthenic exercise to gain points with God; we do it, because it is good for us in every way. -- Philip Yancey
You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world? First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not. -- Ramakrishna
I think it's very difficult, and it requires a tremendous amount of spiritual integrity and discipline, to not be a narcissist in a culture that encourages it every step of the way. -- Alan Ball
My writing practice taught me the important thing is steadfastness. It's not necessarily discipline. Discipline can become a prison. When your spiritual practices become another thing for you to be anxious about, they've lost their usefulness. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Routines are normal, natural, healthy things. Most of us take a shower and brush our teeth every day. That is a good routine. Spiritual disciplines are routines. That is a good thing. But once routines become routine you need to change your routine. -- Mark Batterson
Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on. -- Henri Nouwen
Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy. -- Henri Nouwen
Prayer is the key discipline whereby all spiritual work is done. -- Chuck Pierce
Fasting is not just a physical discipline; it can be a spiritual feast. -- Jentezen Franklin
Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Self-discipline leads to higher spiritual states only if practiced with under- standing. The clearer the goal, the greater the result. -- Ming-Dao Deng
Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation. -- Swami Vivekananda
The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual. -- Rabindranath Tagore
There is a discipline, a spiritual code that you should adhere to, that you do not hurt anyone in any way shape or form either mentally or physically. -- Derek Acorah
Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one's ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness. -- Sri Aurobindo

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