Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work.
Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.
Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.
When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.
When he kissed me, his lips soft and careful, it was all the thrill of our first kiss and all the practiced familiarity of the accumulated memory of all our kisses.
It's like practicing pole vaulting your entire life, and then getting to the olympics and saying, ‘what the hell did I want to jump over this stupid bar for?
Practically every successful person you know of is successful, in part, because they moved the destructive and disruptive people out of their lives.
Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.
Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do.
You're sexist. I'm so sick of liberal lefty men practicing sexual discrimination under the guide of protecting women against sexual discrimination.
Look at me, making one of your dreams come true. You and your Norm truck driving around Normville." "You're practically a god.
Avenia thinks they're battling a king. I doubt they're prepared to fight a boy who thinks childish pranks are practical strategies for war." "Aren't they?
What many refer to as intuition, then, is not the untaught or unteachable but instead is a learned understanding and respect of process, molded by experience and refined over a great deal of time and practice.
Pretty doll," rasped the dark haired vampire as he went about behind her, and she could feel his ravenous hunger practically radiating off him.
The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.
It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak of you, than the name by which you are addressed.
Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there.
Volatility in the up direction is not a problem-it's only downward volatility that offers discourse.
Art is a spiritual practice. If it weren't for art, I'd have given up on God a long time ago. This cathedral though....is very convincing.
In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.
We need to learn how to honor and use a practice for as long as it serves us.
