Quotes About Practice

Sympathetic joy is a practice. It takes time and effort to free ourselves of the scarcity story that most of us have learned along the way, the idea that happiness is a competition, and that someone else is grabbing all the joy.

The public vocation of truth telling cannot be consistently practiced without public and private respect for, and defense of, intellectual integrity.

Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.

What? Had a dry spell of killing people lately? (Susan) As a matter of fact, yes. If it doesn't end soon, I might get out of practice. (Otto)

So what are you two doing here this early anyway? Bubba asked, changing the subject. Don't you have football practise? Nick let loose an evil laugh. It ended early. Stone cracked the coach's wee-belows with a badly thrown ball. I'm sure we'll all be running laps for hours tomorrow. But today... Coach had to go ice himself. Bubba and Mark sucked their breaths in sharply. That'll ruin his weekend. Yeah, and then some, Caleb added.

I think most writers have to have a practice of writing. For me it is very early in the morning. I try to make it a separate world from the rest of my life.

Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.

Nothing replaces real-life experience. Of course, I say this as someone who went to law school.

When you practice Transcendental Meditation you are given a key to the deepest level of life.

Unless we retain a vibrant desire to be free, and unless we understand and practice the principles that give life to essential freedoms, we have little reason to hope they will endure.

I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects

Now I know why yoga is so life-giving for so many. I have never experienced a practice that combines such physical challenge and spiritual wellbeing in my life.

The problem is with any practice is that it is a practice. That is why people don't win. The reason why people don't win is they get stuck in ideas, habits, and ways of seeing life.

Why is it when you start to meditate you stop at a certain point? Because you're tied to the world, you have holes in your being and you haven't learned to lead an efficient life.

The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an illusion.

There is competition in Zen. Let's not be ridiculous. There is competition in everything in life; being a winner in Zen means, competing and winning in the world of enlightenment.

I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music.

To meditate with mindful breathing is to bring body and mind back to the present moment so that you do not miss your appointment with life.

With a practice, we can always remain alive in the present moment. With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

Buddhism is in your heart. Even if you don't have any temple or any monks, you can still be a Buddhist in your heart and life.

When you play the 12-string guitar,you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

At first you think that your sadhana Is a limited part of your life. In time you realize that Everything you do is part of your sadhana.

The greatest gap in life is the one between knowing and doing.