SPIRITUAL PRACTICES


Teaching from Sacred Scripture 

 

This section presents spiritual practices or disciplines (also common to many spiritual traditions in one form or another). These include:

 

Communing with God in natural settings

Community 

Contemplative living 

Devotion  

Fasting

Harmonious living (balanced lifestyle)

Lectio Divina 

Mantras 

Meditation 

Meditation on death

Mindfulness 

Music and dance 

Pilgrimage 

Prayer 

Purification

Repentance

Retreat 

Ritual 

Scriptural reading

Sacred space 

Service 

Visualization 

 

 

Source: I am indebted to Timothy Freke, Encyclopedia of Spirituality: Information and Inspiration to Transform Your Life (New York: Sterling Publishing Company, 2000) for the original content in this list, but which has been modified.

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