Quotes of: Spiritual-practice Keyword

. . . you must not build upon foundations of prayer and contemplation alone, for, unless you strive after the virtues and practice them, you will never grow to be more than dwarfs.

Interior Castle

Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains.

Killosophy

Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn't just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else’s word for it.

Rise of the Morningstar

Keep practicing," he told her. "Until I get it right?" she said. But he corrected her. "No. Until you don't get it wrong.

The Royal Ranger

Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

The meteorites of 1908 and 1947 had struck uninhabited wilderness; but by the end of the twenty-first century there was no region left on Earth that could be safely used for celestial target practice.

Rendezvous with Rama

Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, then you'll have a very hard time in life.

The Rithmatist

Practices are cultural: they do not submit to the meanings that an individual wants them to have, either for herself or for others.

Sex, Culture, and Justice: The Limits of Choice

Scott: I don't think I'm ready to be a grown-up. Kim: I don't think you are either, buddy. But hey, you'll get it. It just takes practice.

Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour

Because his killing is not a passion of the moment but a compelling urge that has been growing within him sometimes for years, he has completely amalgamated this practice into his lifestyle.

Serial Killers

Cats were not, in her experience, an animal with much soul. Prosaic, practical little creatures as a general rule. It would suit her very well to be thought catlike.

Soulless

The best practice is to be around people who absolutely disagree. Grace in conflict is a study in love.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Humility puts others first because "first" takes on new meaning through the practice of humility.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Why is war so much like a practical joke? she thinks. Hiding behind bushes, leaping out, with not much difference between Boo! and Bang! except the blood.

MaddAddam

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.

Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices

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.

Love Is Letting Go of Fear

Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.

Let it Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

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.

Linger

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?

The Long Walk

Practically every successful person you know of is successful, in part, because they moved the destructive and disruptive people out of their lives.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life