Spiritual practice is to the mystical life what food and water is to the body. Just as we cannot survive very long without food and water, we cannot survive on the spiritual journey without a contemplative practice of some sort. It is the inner source of nourishment and growth, and it unites with the efforts of the divine, or the ultimate nature of the mind itself.
There are many forms of spiritual practice as there are individuals. Forms may differ, but the goal is the same: integration and transformation. To achieve authentic spirituality, genuine mysticism, we must adopt some form of spiritual practice.
See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Cultivating Stillness
• Diarmuid O’Murchú on Our Capacity to Meditate
• Active Waiting: A Radical Attitude Toward Life
• Prayer and the Experience of God in an Ever-Unfolding Universe
• Thoughts on Transformation – Part I | Part II | Part III
• As the Last Walls Dissolve . . . Everything Is Possible
• Forever Oneness
• The Most Sacred and Simple Mystery of All
• The Source Is Within You
• Honoring the Inner Light of the Soul
• A Warrior’s Heart
• In the Midst of the “Great Unraveling,” a Visit to the Prayer Tree
• “Everything Is Saturated With the Sacred”
• A Sacred Pause
• Aligning With the Living Light
• Mystical Participation
• A Prayer of Anchoring
• Thoughts on Christian Meditation – Part 1 | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V
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