Quotes of: Spiritual-practice Keyword

Modern life seems to recede further and further away from nature, and closely connected with this fact we seem to be losing the feeling of reverence towards nature. It is probably inevitable when science and machinery, capitalism and materialism go h...

The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk

What is the meaning of life? What is our purpose on earth? These are some of the great, false questions of religion. We need not answer them, for they are badly posed, but we can live our answers all the same. At a minimum, we can create the conditio...

Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

Has your soul a special mission? Yes. Your mission is in the inmost recesses of your heart, and you have to find and fulfil it there. There can be no external way for you to fulfil your mission. The deer grows musk in his own body. He smells it and b...

Yoga And The Spiritual Life; The Journey Of India's Soul

The Australian Aboriginal cave paintings, from this period, are the first hints of religion that humans have as proof of religious behaviour. The caves in which the paintings are found date to 50,000 years ago through forensic geology and carbon dati...

Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction

The Ancestors were from Africa and entered into Australia 50,000 years ago. They would have eaten food from indigenous life from their area almost immediately. They harvest most of the day, and eat this food. The AM looks like a food source they alre...

Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction

Let me put it this way: You cannot live in the world without being in pain, spiritual and physical pain. We have developed mechanisms to deal with these pains, to overcome them somehow. Therapy, religion and spirituality, relationships, material succ...

David Foster Wallace

In sum, then, "thinking about thinking" has to be a principal ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

The Culture of Education

The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.

Considerations on Representative Government

One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.

The Dharma Bums

It is practically a matter of life or death for a True Cock Worshiper to taste pre-cum.

Demonsapienism & True Cock Worship: True Cock Worship

All religions are beautiful in the story, as you say. It's when they're put into practice that they grow ugly.

The Enemy of the Good

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.

Eleven Minutes

I wonder if whoever invented World of Warcraft realizes it’s practice for sociopaths.

Every Fifteen Minutes

They were almost never alone, and now that they almost-practically were, he felt kind of frantic for her attention.

Eleanor & Park

... reading was hardly as practical a skill as being able to handle a dagger or use Allomancy?

The Final Empire

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

The basis of the practice is to directly participate in each moment as it occurs with as much awareness and understanding as possible.

A Gradual Awakening

And yet Praecursoris is not punished the same way, only because it is not practical, and he is needed for breeding?

His Majesty's Dragon

Seriously, that woman is so much crazy crammed into a small space that she's practically a crazy singularity.

Blackout

I was practically The Boy in the Bubble; all my autoimmune responses stripped bare by chemical representations of pine forests and summer meadows.

In Bloom

We all want results and we want them fast. But, when practicing meditation, impatience is a hindrance.

Baby Steps to Meditation