Spiritual practice is a 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, author and adjunct professor of philosophy and world religions at the University of New Mexico-Taos, on practicing a tradition and what it brings. From our Fall Issue on Spiritual Practice. Read the entire interview here: bit.ly/1t3brYt Art Credit: Albert Anker, Swiss Painter (1831-1910), Girl, Peeling Potatoes.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 18:23:49 +0000
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