Our Spiritual Practice-Choose Peace

Spiritual practice is choosing peace, clarity, and compassion in thought, speech, and action. We have only to observe our thoughts and choices to determine whether we are aligning ourselves with peace, chasing after desires, or succumbing to depression or inertia. Practice making any course corrections needed to stay the course of an uplifting way of life. Like a pilot steering toward a chosen destination, constant course correction is necessary until we arrive.
~Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian

Whatever our particular religion or even if we have no religion we can have a spiritual practice. As Yogacharya O'Brian says here, our spiritual practice is how we choose to live our lives. We realize what we want in our life and then live consciously so that we live in a way that attracts what we are looking for. Like is attracted to like. When we find that we veer off course, all we need to do is notice and then make the course correction. One of the many benefits of meditation is that it trains us to remain awake and aware of what is happening in our minds. That is what the pilot is constantly doing—remaining awake and aware in order to make those needed course corrections. We make no judgement of ourselves. We just notice and make the course correction. This is the way to live our best life. This is our spiritual practice.