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:

    “The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience the most painful tragedies by far: but for just this reason they honor life, because it pits its greatest opposition against them.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)