Quotes of: Spiritual-practice Keyword

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

The Practice of the Wild: Essays

Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present.

Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

Blaming others doesn't certify your goodness.

Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment

Waves are the practice of the water.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

...the one aim of those who practice philosophy in the proper manner is to practice for dying and death.

Socrates trans. G.M.A. Grube

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Bruce Lee

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

Jerry Lee Lewis

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

Karen Armstrong

Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.

Yo-Yo Ma

The way I was brought up, there was a little bit of prodding to do something more practical, and I wasted a lot of time trying to be a practical person.

James Mercer

I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.

Zooey Deschanel

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries a practical knowledge of the construction of small lakes was part of the equipment of most countrymen. Many of the holes they dug and dams they built still hold water and are now often regarded as 'natur...

Designed For Recreation: A Practical Handbook For All Concerned With Providing Leisure Facilities In The Countryside

It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular, disciplined practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools a...

The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life

We depend on computers when we ourselves haven't mastered the principles behind what we are asking computers to design. Glenn Murcutt - A Singular Architectural Practice page 16

Glenn Murcutt: A Singular Architectural Practice: 2002 Laureate Of The Pritzker Architecture Prize

More than happiness or joy or lower blood pressure, the practice of God’s presence gives us meaning. Through this practice we become more closely aligned with Jesus and we learn His desire for us more completely.Life can be hard. The Practice of Th...

Breakfast in the temple

But when it has been shown by the researches of that the septic property of the atmosphere depended not on the oxygen, or any gaseous constituent, but on minute organisms suspended in it, which owed their energy to their vitality, it occurred to me t...

ON THE ANTISEPTIC PRINCIPLE OF THE PRACTICE OF SURGERY

Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure ...

The Practice of Everyday Life

As long as we practice with a vow to help others, we are the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion, and we become the leading figure in the Heart Sutra, whether we are a layperson or are ordained, whether whether celibate or married, living in the monaster...

Thunderous Silence: A Formula for Ending Suffering: A Practical Guide to the Heart Sutra

As long as we practice with a vow to help others, we are the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion, and we become the leading figure in the Heart Sutra, whether we are a layperson or are ordained, whether celibate or married, living in the monastery or liv...

Thunderous Silence: A Formula for Ending Suffering: A Practical Guide to the Heart Sutra

David: Would you marry me? Gillian: Well, it wouldn't be very practical, David. David: Practical? No, of course not. Of course not. But then neither am I, Gillian. Neither am I. I'm not very practical at all. Sylvia: You'll miss the plane! Gillian: I...

Shine

There have been applied sciences throughout the ages. ... However this so-called practice was not much more than paper in nearly all of these cases, and the various applied sciences were only lacking a bagatelle, namely proper scientific practice. Th...

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