Quotes About Practice

I nodded, pretending I was relaxed. I watched the sunlight sparkling on the water and practiced mind-body integration for a few seconds by quietly hyperventilating.

Forget perfect on the first try. In the face of frustration, your best tool is a few deep breaths, and remembering that you can do anything once you've practed two hundred times.

The practice of non-violence requires a belief in divine vengeance.

La musique est accoutumée à ne point faire ce qu'on veut.

Doctors pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into patients of whom they know nothing.

Practice of the Art of Peace is an act of faith, a belief in the ultimate power of nonviolence

Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

Predicamos la caridad y la compasión, pero raras veces lo que significan".

For the practitioner, the understanding of wisdom and compassion—and the inherent tension between the two—is not to be resolved on a theoretical level, but to be experienced in one's own mind and body. In this way one finds emptiness and compassion to be mutually supportive rather than mutually contradictory.

It is a perfection that does not aim at completion; rather, it is wisdom based on practice through which one is always progressing toward the ideal.

Spiritual aspirants must diligently follow the teaching. Practicing devotion to God has the effect of turning the mind towards the Divine and this leads to purity of feeling and thinking. Essentially, spiritual practice is a worship of the Divinity within oneself.

Spiritual preceptors and the gods and goddesses lead willing souls to understand and practice the disciplines that lead to spiritual enlightenment but they cannot do the disciplines for spiritual aspirants. Spiritual aspirants must diligently follow the teaching.

Throughout my life, I never sought retribution against those who hurt me because I believe in forgiveness. I have practiced forgiving, just as I want to be forgiven. Only God knows what's in a person's heart, his true intentions. He sees and hears all things.

Too often, ideas meant to yield a certain practice are instead transported into the academy, as fare for 'enriching' a curriculum and, of course, generating jobs for the growing professoriat.

It is better to practice a little than talk a lot.

Democracy is the most overrated concept of our generation and is perhaps the most advertised export product under the made in US label. It is the easiest to tackle, but difficult to practice.

Every strength becomes a weakness when not practiced.

Everyone want to define love, but no one wish to practice it.

Many people may talk, but only few can practice whatever they have said.

Maturity should become our daily practices and never to allow any immature thought to penetrate through the mind without our knowledge of its presence.

Only repetition with a goal in mind can truly lead to mastery. Sometimes you can keep rehearsing without learning anything new.

Practice is necessary. You can't learn to swim just by reading a book about swimming. Otherwise, you will continue to look for teachers at each stop.

Practicing spirituality means accepting to be governed by an absolute power, a law or a master, your mind cannot wander elsewhere.

The beauty of religion is to explore the heart and thus, to put feelings into practice.