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    The Art of Practical Spirituality: How to Bring More Passion, Creativity, and Balance into Everyday Life
    The Art of Practical Spirituality: How to Bring More Passion, Creativity, and Balance into Everyday Life
    The Art of Practical Spirituality: How to Bring More Passion, Creativity, and Balance into Everyday Life
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    The Art of Practical Spirituality: How to Bring More Passion, Creativity, and Balance into Everyday Life

    By Patricia R. Spadaro and Elizabeth Cllare Prophet

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    "Create an intimate relationship with Spirit

    “Highly inspirational and divinely readable. The Art of Practical Spirituality is modern medicine for the eternal soul.” —Dannion Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Saved by the Light

    This commonsense guide offers practical steps for staying in tune with Spirit midst the hustle and bustle of everyday life, for listening to the still small voice within, and for living in the here and now.

    The keys to practical spirituality explored here, gleaned from the ancient wisdom of the world’s spiritual traditions, also show how to discover your soul’s core passion, create a sacred space, and use every encounter and circumstance as an opportunity to grow."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSummit University Press
    Release dateJan 7, 2011
    ISBN9781932890396
    The Art of Practical Spirituality: How to Bring More Passion, Creativity, and Balance into Everyday Life

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      The Art of Practical Spirituality - Patricia R. Spadaro

      us.

      Discover your soul’s

      core passion and

      shape it into a mission

      Each man has his own vocation. . . .

      There is one direction in which

      all space is open to him.

      —RALPH WALDO EMERSON

      Y ou were born with a unique purpose to fulfill on earth. That means there is something that is yours, and yours alone, to do—and unless you do it for loved ones or for the betterment of mankind, no one will.

      Many of us don’t have the faintest idea what our mission is, or even that we’re supposed to have one. To find your mission, start by asking yourself: What am I passionate about? What is it that I love to do, that I live just to do? Plain and simple, what makes me happy?

      A Hasidic saying advises, Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength. You will know your passion because it makes your heart sing. It’s the thing that gets you out of bed in the morning. When you talk about it, you become spirited, energized, alive.

      That doesn’t mean, however, that pursuing your soul’s passion will always be easy. It can feel like both the agony and the ecstasy. For one thing, you may have to fend off the raucous voices that will try as hard as they can to drown out the voice of your soul.

      T. S. Eliot once gave this advice to students: Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think. . . . It is bad enough to think and want the things that your elders want you to think and want, but it is still worse to think and want just like all your contemporaries. And Bertrand Russell once quipped, One should respect public opinion insofar as it is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison.

      Another reason following your life’s passion isn’t always easy is that it takes hard work. Our calling is the crucible in which we forge our true identity. It’s the laboratory where we, like alchemists of the spirit, learn to transform the base metals of our lower nature into the gold of our highest self. This soul work is a sacred labor that we undertake not only for ourselves but for others. What will come out of it is a gift that we can lay on the altar of humanity.

      May you live every

      day of your life.

      —JONATHAN SWIFT

      If we don’t accept the challenge, if we decide to take the easy way out—because it’s more comfortable or lucrative—then we’ve betrayed our own soul. For the soul, as Jim Lehrer once observed, "must be nourished along with the bank account and the

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