Quotes of: Spiritual-practice Keyword

However, on one occasion, several years ago, I was idiot enough to take a dose of LSD. (I did it to please a woman.) I had what is known as a 'bad trip'. It was a very bad trip. I shall not attempt to describe what I experienced on that dreadful and ...

The Sea, the Sea

Nobody really enjoys having to pacify their feelings. It's too much like failure; it reminds you of weakness. but feelings don't want to be pacified, either. They want to be fulfilled. You fulfill your positive feelings (love, hope, optimism, appreci...

Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being

When we say to people, 'I will pray for you,' we make a very important commitment. The sad thing is that this remark often remains nothing but a well-meant expression of concern. But when we learn to descend with our mind into our heart, then all tho...

The Way of the Heart: Desert Spirituality and Contemporary Ministry

Secularity is a way of being dependent on the responses of our milieu. The secular or false self is the self which is fabricated, as Thomas Merton says, by social compulsions. 'Compulsive' is indeed the best adjective for the false self. It points to...

The Way of the Heart: Desert Spirituality and Contemporary Ministry

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

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

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

A major challenge we face today, therefore, is to create a desire in people to learn; and to foster and facilitate this desire throughout their lives.

E Learning: Concepts And Practice

I have always understood that money made in the patent medicine business is a practical bar to social success.

Forty years an advertising agent, 1865-1905

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

A Farewell to Arms

Down in the cellar the Gestapo were licensed to practice was the Ministry of Justice called ‘heightened interrogation’. The rules had been drawn up by civilised men in warm offices and they stipulated the presence of a doctor.

Fatherland

A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?

Faithless: Tales of Transgression