Read our latest feature articles:
“Give Yourself Away and Honor Your Heart" Part One and Part Two by Patricia Spadaro.
“While life calls us to give, and to give joyfully,” she says, “it also beckons us to master the art of balance. In my previous articles in this series, I talked about our duty not just to give to others, but to give to ourselves—and to see ourselves as worthy of receiving.
"Now it’s time to understand how many of our beliefs around gift-giving can block us from giving the most important and the only real gift we can give: the gift of our heart.”
Go to “Give Yourself Away and Honor Your Heart, Part One
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Create New Possibilities for Your Inner Adventure
with Wisdom from Around the World
Spirituality is nondenominational. Each of the world's great sages and saints offers keys to help us fulfill our highest potential, whether they embrace Buddhism, Hinduism or Taoism, Judaism, Christianity or Sufism, or any of the alternative movements of ancient or modern times. While their rituals, practices and spiritual vocabulary may look and sound very different, they share the same inner principles—themes that resound through every age and culture. They teach us that spirituality is relevant to the issues of daily life. They encourage us to grapple with the deeper meaning behind our life experiences. And they show us that we, too, can shape sacred wisdom into practical tools for overcoming challenges and helping others do the same.
But where do we start and how do we put it all together? At Practical Spirituality with Patricia Spadaro, you'll find a rich source of inspiration and insight for your journey.
Spiritual solutions that illumine, inspire and empower
Creating your own working relationship with Spirit and with the spiritual part of yourself is not only invaluable but also absolutely essential. This is the kind of partnership that will help you move from fear to love, from confusion to clarity, from panic to creative problem-solving, and from negative thinking to positive power.
Practical Spirituality is devoted to helping you create real spiritual solutions tailored to your real needs. The articles, books, study guides and other resources on this site weave together the threads that run through the teachings of the sages, masters and mystics of East and West. You will find insights that enlighten, quotes that inspire, stories that teach (and entertain), and tools that empower you to create personal transformation. No matter what issues you are facing, we will help you integrate the world's ancient and modern wisdom into your life in meaningful ways.
Dare to explore the inner traditions
At the heart of every religious tradition are the mystics, those who seek a direct experience of the divine—their own personal relationship with God—not in the future but in the present moment. These adventurers of the spirit were willing to experiment and to question, to venture beyond the boundaries of orthodoxy, even to bear intense criticism and persecution, for the sake of this quest.
Perhaps most important, the mystics proved that spirituality and practicality are not mutually exclusive—that we are meant to cultivate a working relationship with the spiritual world in order to create positive change in the material world. They experienced this divine partnership first hand, but they didn't stop there. They applied the deep and delicate and down-to-earth keys they gleaned from their inner explorations to transform the people and the world around them.
What could be more practical?
Through their writings, experiences and radiant examples, each of these spiritual pioneers left us a map for our own journey. Our task is to discover which map will lead us where we need to go right now and then to decipher its secret pathways.
"Please join me in celebrating, reflecting on, dialoguing about and, most importantly, applying the lessons of the world's great spiritual luminaries as we together create a renaissance of the spirit."
— Patricia Spadaro
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This Week's
Quote for the Quest
“If you don’t know how to serve man, why worry about serving the gods?” —Confucius
"If only they were to forsake me, and observe my teachings!”
—Words put into the mouth of God, from the Talmud.
"If your philosophy doesn’t grow corn, I don’t want to hear about it."
—Sun Bear
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"The world's great spiritual teachers and traditions share the same inner essence—common messages that are not only deeply inspiring but also supremely relevant to the issues of our daily lives."
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