Quotes About Practice

The problem with patience and discipline is that developing each of them requires both of them.

creating the practicing mind comes down to a few simple rules: • Keep yourself process-oriented. • Stay in the present. • Make the process the goal and use the overall goal as a rudder to steer your efforts. • Be deliberate, have an intention about what you want to accomplish, and remain aware of that intention.

One study states that repeating a particular motion sixty times a day over twenty-one days will form a new habit that will become ingrained in your mind.

You cannot master difficult situations without practice. You cannot practice mastery without being in the situation. When you know this, difficulty becomes an opportunity to push past your thresholds.

A paradox of life: The problem with patience and discipline is that developing each of them requires both of them.

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

Religion, considered as a duty, is incumbent upon every living soul alike, and, therefore, must be on a level to the understanding and comprehension of all. Man does not learn religion as he learns the secrets and mysteries of a trade. He learns the theory of religion by reflection. It arises out of the action of his own mind upon the things which he sees, or upon what he may happen to hear or to read, and the practice joins itself thereto.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

Nature hath given us us a particular emotion, to wit, that of ridicule, which seems intended for this very purpose of putting out of countenance what is absurd, either in opinion or practice. This weapon, when properly applied, cuts with as keen an edge as argument. Nature has furnished us with the first to expose absurdity; as with the last to refute error.

Those who reject some principle of common sense in speculation, find themselves under necessity of being governed by it in their practice. A skeptic may struggle hard to disbelieve the information of his senses, as a man does to swim against the torrent; but ah! it is in vain...For after all, when his strength is spent in the fruitless attempt, he will be carried down the torrent with the common herd of believers.

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

for what we do not act up to we do not really believe;

La piedad consiste en una armonía exacta entre principios y prácticas piadosas

Knowledge without Use and Expression is a vain thing, bringing no good to its possessor, or to the race. Beware of Mental Miserliness, and express into Action that which you have learned. Study the Axioms and Aphorisms, but practice them also.

El conocimiento que no se usa y expresa es una cosa vana que no aporta ningún bien a su poseedor o a la raza. Guárdense de la tacañería mental y expresen en la acción lo aprendido. Estúdiense los axiomas y aforismos, pero practíquense también.

We can look at our work as service to society and as an opportunity to learn more about ourselves by interacting with others. Our work will thus become an occasion to practice the teachings that we meditate on.

Having these negative imprints on my mental continuum is unbearable. "It's as if I've swallowed a lethal poison. I must practice the antidote right away and purify all this negative karma immediately, without a second's delay." In this way, generate strong feelings of urgency and regret.

Rather, the aim is to offer a systematic practice to make compassion the fundamental principle governing all aspects of our lives, from how we see ourselves and interact with others, to bringing up our children, to engaging with the world around us.

the practice of accepting all ill omens as charms."206

highest yoga tantra meditations, with their ritualized deity-yoga visualizations.

Bless me so that I may have nothing to do but practice Dharma.

The meditation session divides into three—preparatory practices, the main practice, and the concluding practice.