Quotes of: Practical Keyword

We agreed that at least to some extent the whole punk movement is based on the Buddha's 1st noble truth of suffering & the dissatisfactory nature of the material world. The punks see through the lies of society & the oppressive dictates of modern con...

Dharma Punx: A Memoir

He himself, Anthony went on to think, he himself had chosen to regard the whole process as either pointless or a practical joke. Yes, chosen. For it had been an act of the will. If it were all nonsense or a joke, then he was at liberty to read his bo...

Eyeless in Gaza

The importance of falling in love lies not in how it feels, but in what it perceives. And as always with our feelings, the key moral issue is how truthful the perception is... Falling in love is a sign that this might be someone with whom you could m...

Good News for Anxious Christians: Ten Practical Things You Don't Have to Do

It is of course no secret to contemporary philosophers and psychologists that man himself is changing in our violent century, under the influence, of course, not only of war and revolution, but also of practically everything else that lays claim to b...

Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age

I don't think I can give you an answer. Oh, I could give you Freudian reasons with fancy talk, and that would be right as far as it went. But what you want are the reasons for the reasons, and I'm not able to give you those. Not for the others, anywa...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

The same is true of stories and legends that haunt urban space like superfluous or additional inhabitants. They are the object of a witch-hunt, by the very logic of the techno-structure. But [the extermination of proper place names] (like the extermi...

The Practice of Everyday Life

Volunteering to help others is the right thing to do, and it also boosts personal happiness; a review of research by the Corporation for National and Community Service shows that those who aid the causes they value tend to be happier and in better he...

Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life

In sitting meditation, our practice is to watch our thoughts arise, label them "thinking", and return to the breath.

Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion

An interesting practice that combines mindfulness and refraining is just to notice your physical movements when you feel uncomfortable.

Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion

And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.

The Chronicles of Clovis

Many of our leadership practices have gone from being tried and true to being tired and tarnished.

Chess, Not Checkers: Elevate Your Leadership Game

All he'd done was lose her underwear and practically get her blown up. Hell. This had to be the absolute worst first date of her life.

Crazy Hot

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

Carefree Dignity: Discourses on Training in the Nature of Mind

Yeah, right. Instead of watching TV, we'll practice our weird magical powers. Great. What's next? Zooming around on flying carpets?

Chase Tinker and the House of Magic

What all couples have ever wanted, a little bit of privacy in which to practice all manners of love.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

By being high, you become low and by being low, you become high. By being humble, you become high.

Creative Transformation - The Golden Lotus Sutras on Spiritual Practice

He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to shoot in. He said the Army was practically as full of bastards as the Nazis were.

The Catcher in the Rye

Most cowgirls are natural storytellers, their art honed by years of practice. . . . It serves as entertainment; it also preserves the humor and value of a unique way of life.

Cowgirls: Women of the American West

Discernment is trust put into practice.

Everything I Wanted To Know About Spirituality But Didn't Know How To Ask: A Spiritual Seekers Guidebook

And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on 'Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt' had won the ten-dollar prize in Practical Theology.

Elmer Gantry

Virtual worlds are places of imagination that encompass practices of play, performance, creativity and ritual.

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method