Quotes of: Practice-makes Keyword

Loving is like any other art-craft where the masters have carefully practiced and where the novices have languished in their carelessness.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Far too many advocates rail against this or that sexual practice; few state clearly and explicitly what we are for.

Sex: What Your Parents Didn't Tell You

I teach our young men that respect is earned each day on the practice field, in the classroom, and how each young man lives his life.

Team Of One: We Believe

[T]he scale of a man's evil is not entirely to be measured by its practical consequences. Men commit evil within the scope available to them.

Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses

I'd had much practice turning my mind away from certain memories of my childhood. I could quickly dial her remembered voice from a whisper to a silence.

Odd Thomas

The calligraphy reads, “Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha.” Listening to talks about the dharma, or the teachings of Buddha, or practicing meditation is nothing other than studying ourselves.

The Pocket Pema Chodron

It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to search for prejudices among the beliefs and values we hold.

Practical Ethics

To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would put us in the same position as racists who give preference to those who are members of their race.

Practical Ethics

Hard times are a-coming, and people without useful, practical skills are going to suffer. Or suffer most.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.

A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart.

A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

Sometimes the journey to love involves some bumpy detours, as any girl with an - ex-fiance will tell you. But I've learned a smooth trip isn't particularly important. Getting there is what matters.

Private Practice

As you consider your next move, practice this definition of trust: the willingness to take steps while simultaneously waiting for “instructions.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

I feel it respectful to observe and practice new customs, if I am to ever understand what it truly means to be human.

The Twenty-Seven Swords - Part One

As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of changing states of consciousness will cease to have a threatening or ...

Travels

By identifying that which is disrupting our current moment of bliss, so too can we then take the logical and practical steps to amend the problem.

The Twelve Messages of the Spiritual Heart: A Novel of Transformation

The ultimate language of yoga is expressed in doing yoga, a practice that transcends words as we open our lives to living more consciously through the infinite wisdom of the heart.

Teaching Yoga: Essential Foundations and Techniques

It's just that you are practiced at persuading, and sometimes it's quite difficult, sir to distinguish being persuaded by you from being knocked down in street and stamped on. Pg.406

Wolf Hall

Ideally, love is unconditional; practically, it is more often the opposite.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better.

The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World

Potentially, anyone writing on the Web can reach a global audience. In practice, hardly anyone ever does.

You Can't Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom