Quotes by Practice And watch two men washing clothes, one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony. Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there's really only one work. Rumi practicementwo I feel when I say I can do something and carry this opportunity to make movies, it's because I took the time to study it. A boxer can't just jump in the ring. You've got to practice and practice and practice. RZA boxerspracticeopportunity Practice random acts of kindness... and watch Mom! Sadie Calvano mompracticekindness However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant Saadi ignorancepracticeart It is essential to practice spiritual disciplines along with academic studies. Sai Baba educationalpracticespiritual The ideal of service and the urge to practice it form the very heart of education. Sai Baba educationalpracticeheart Your life and your practice should not be separate. You bring your practice into experience. You bring it about. Sakyong Mipham shouldpractice One may call the world a myth , in which bodies and things are visible, but souls and minds hidden. Besides, to wish to teach the whole truth about the Gods to all produces contempt in the foolish, because they cannot understand, and lack of zeal in the good, whereas to conceal the truth by myths prevents the contempt of the foolish, and compels the good to practice philosophy. Sallust soulpracticephilosophy If you decide to go on a Buddhist path, you have to be careful if you start mixing a lot of different traditions you are not totally familiar with - mixing this kind of meditation with that kind of practice or this kind of visualization with that kind of mantra. Then you really are concocting your own thing, and you have no idea what is going to happen. Sakyong Mipham buddhistpracticeideas We live in a culture where information is becoming easier to access. Certain special practices have been kept very quiet and secret, and those traditions need to be respected. But there are a lot of teachings people can access that would benefit them greatly. Sakyong Mipham teachingpracticepeople A lot of people do their practice. They meditate on compassion. Then they yell at people afterwards. That is not quite working. One of the things I try to emphasize is contemplative meditation - bringing your thought and intention into meditation. Sakyong Mipham compassionpracticepeople In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural. Sallust virtuepracticenatural There are many who say to the Lord, "I give myself wholly to Thee, without any reserve," but there are few who embrace the practice of this abandonment, which consists in receiving with a certain indifference every sort of event, as it happens in conformity with Divine Providence, as well afflictions as consolations, contempt and reproaches as honor and glory. Saint Francis de Sales honorpracticegiving Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and keep your practices together. Rumi support-youpracticefriendship Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it's not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own. Salman Rushdie practiceinspirationallife It was hard to become an astronaut. Not anywhere near as much physical training as people imagine, but a lot of mental training, a lot of learning. You have to learn everything there is to know about the Space Shuttle and everything you are going to be doing, and everything you need to know if something goes wrong, and then once you have learned it all, you have to practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice until everything is second nature, so it's a very, very difficult training, and it takes years. Sally Ride spacepracticeyears Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same. Sally Ride nasapracticetrying What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer! Saint Augustine soulpracticeprayer What then, is correctness of speech but the maintenance of the practice of others, as established by the authority of ancient speakers? But the weaker men are, the more they are troubled by such matters. Their weakness stems from a desire to appear learned, not with a knowledge of things, by which we are edified, but with a knowledge of signs, by which it is difficult not to be puffed up in some way; even a knowledge of things often makes people boastful, unless their necks are held down by the Lord's yoke. Saint Augustine practicemenpeople I'm a poet who practices Zen. And it's not, I'm somebody who practices Zen who writes poetry. There's no separation for me. Sam Hamill separationpracticewriting«173174175176177178179180181182183»
