Quotes About Practice

The practice seeks to make change, but the process demands originality. The practice is consistent, but only in intention, not in execution.

People don't remember what they read, what they hear, or even what they see. If they're lucky, people remember what they do, but they're not very good at that either. We remember what we rehearse.

Relieved of this easily measured outcome, I could focus on the practice alone. I focused on the rhythm, on my posture, on the magic of the physics of casting. At some point, the professional has to bring home the fish. That's the fuel that permits the professional to show up each day. But the catch is the side effect of the practice itself. Get the practice right, and your commitment will open the door for the market to engage with your work.

While it's calming to be reassured, it never lasts. As soon as we hear the words, the feeling begins to fade away. There's never enough reassurance to make up for a lack of commitment to the practice. We have no choice other than to trust ourselves enough to lead the way.

Talent is something we're born with: it's in our DNA, a magical alignment of gifts. But skill? Skill is earned. It's learned and practiced and hard-won. It's insulting to call a professional talented. She's skilled, first and foremost. Many people have talent, but only a few care enough to show up fully, to earn their skill. Skill is rarer than talent. Skill is earned. Skill is available to anyone who cares enough.

Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.

By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.

Meditation can be a refuge, but it is not a practice in which real life is ever excluded. The strength of mindfulness is that it enables us to hold difficult thoughts and feelings in a different way—with awareness, balance, and love

Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn't go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes.

Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.

Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

Training attention through meditation opens our eyes.

Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.

The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.

Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.

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

Forgiveness is a process, an admittedly difficult one that often can feel like a rigorous spiritual practice.

Resilience Practicing Self-Care To Avoid Burnout The Illusion of Control Patience and Perspective Resilience In The Face

Beginning again and again is the actual practice, not a problem to be overcome so that one day we can come to the real meditation.

Loving kindness practice helps us move out of the terrain of our default narratives if they tend to be based on fear or disconnection. We become authors of brand-new stories about love.

The first time a meditation teacher encouraged me to practice mindfulness—which

But to take delight in our generosity helps us immeasurably in our spiritual practice.

Setting the intention to practice kindness toward one's partner or family members or friends does not preclude getting angry or upset.

Every time we forget to breathe or our minds wander or we're hijacked by feelings or sensations, we gently bring ourselves back to the breath, again and again.