Spiritual Exercises

Spiritual exercises may refer to:

  • Any spiritual practice dedicated towards increasing one's personal spirituality
  • Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola, a book of spiritual practices of the Roman Catholic Jesuit order
  • Philosophy as a way of life in Stoicism

Famous quotes containing the words spiritual and/or exercises:

    “Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise—nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.”
    —Marilyn Hacker (b. 1942)

    “Poetry, at all times, exercises two distinct functions: it may reveal, it may unveil to every eye, the ideal aspects of common things ... or it may actually add to the number of motives poetic and uncommon in themselves, by the imaginative creation of things that are ideal from their very birth.”
    —Walter Pater (1839–1894)