Quotes of: Beginners Keyword

For the beginner, practice without effort is not true practice.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Beginner's luck is great for beginners.

Robert Fripp

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.

The Buddha Is Still Teaching: Contemporary Buddhist Wisdom

God save me from a bad neighbor and a beginner on the fiddle.

Italian

Waves are the practice of the water.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.

No Need for Speed: A Beginner's Guide to the Joy of Running

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.

Life

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

Barbara Sher

Anyone can learn how to draw.

How to Sketch: A Beginner's Guide to Sketching Techniques, Including Step By Step Exercises, Tips and Tricks

Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.

The Silent Teacher: A Beginner's Guide to Meditation

To take this posture itself is the purpose of our practice.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

It is when your practice is rather greedy that you become discouraged with it.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life!

Thomas Merton

File Under General Wisdom: You want to know the difference between a master and a beginner? The master has failed more times than the beginner has tried.

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We are not trapped by our thoughts. What we generally do, however, is create thoughts that trap us.” (p.162)

A Beginner's Guide to the Path of Ascension (The Ascension Series)

We talk of independence. No man is independent. We are all interdependent; and we shall only rise as we carry others with us, and as we are assisted by others.

A Beginner's Guide to Talmage

Preparing for your journey in the most thorough way possible will not diminish your experiences abroad. It will enhance them.

Prepare, Travel, Return: A Beginner's Guide to Globetrotting

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

A mind full of preconceived ideas, subjective intentions, or habits it not open to things as they are.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

When the restrictions you have do not limit you, this is what we mean by practice.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice