Practice Quotes - Page 29

• This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions.

  Paul Brunton

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Luxury

  Paul Brunton (1986). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Practices for the Quest; Relax and Retreat”, Larson Publication

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• Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Attitude, Inspiration, Attachment

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2206, Manonmani Publishers

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• Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Meditation, Vision

  Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

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• Hold to the idea, "I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act," and each day the identification of yourself with thoughts and feelings will grow less, until at last you can entirely separate yourself from the mind and actually know it to be apart from yourself.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Thinking, Ideas

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3525, Manonmani Publishers

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• When you're centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.

  Ray Dalio

  Inspiration, Meditation And Yoga, Hijacking

  "The world's largest hedge fund reimburses employees half the cost of $1,000 meditation lessons" by Richard Feloni, www.businessinsider.com. November 10, 2016.

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• Eighteen months ago, when first I stood before you I called attention, as earnestly and seriously as I knew how, to what looked to me to be the dangers that were ahead, and I urged you at that time to practice the old virtues of thrift, of honesty, of truthfulness, of industry, and so on through the list of those I named. All that I said then I say again.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Honesty, Attention, Months

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• I am persuaded, from all the facts that have come to me, that it would have been possible, if we had functioned as the Lord intended us to function, if we had paid our tithes and our offerings as the Lord intended us to pay them, we might have gone on without one dollar from our federal government. And has it ever occurred to you what a mighty influence we should have exercised for good and for respect and for all of the virtues that we have been taught, and that God has commanded us to exercise and cultivate and practice, if we had just followed along what he has asked us to do?

  J. Reuben Clark

  Exercise, Should Have, Government

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• Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words.

  William S. Burroughs

  Would Be, Revolution, American Revolution

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.416, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The practice of imagination, on an everyday basis, involves clearing unhelpful images that block or misdirect our energies, and choosing to focus on positive, mobilizing imagery that gives us courage and confidence.

  Robert Moss

  Block, Giving, Imagination

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• Gratitude based on a faith that everything that happens or doesn’t happen in your life is for your own best interests. That we live in a purposeful universe. Life is always for you; it is never against you. It is a fact that blessings sometimes come wrapped in fear, pain, and tears. In choosing to practice unconditional gratitude you are choosing to trust the process, to honor your feelings and to place your faith in an outcome of inevitable grace.

  William Holden

  Gratitude, Pain, Blessing

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• I do a lot of yoga. I practice yoga three or four times a week. It's an escape for me.

  Nina Dobrev

  Yoga, Four, Three

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• You have to work from one point to go to another. So I admire work ethic, I think it should be reinforced through  our neighborhoods, that everybody should work hard, practice makes perfect, you have to be diligent with what you want, you have to apply yourself, you have to motivate your self. You have to do for self by yourself, and then you can do things for other people. That's what I had to do, I had to do for self.

  Tupac Shakur

  Hard Work, Thinking, Self

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• I'll be directing some more 'Private Practice' episodes when we wrap 'Caprica.'

  Eric Stoltz

  Episodes, Wraps

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• After practice, I would have to go back to the dorm and take a nap.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Naps, Dorms

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• We cannot carry the gospel to the poor and lowly while emulating the practices of the rich and powerful. We’ve been invited into a story that begins with humility and ends with glory; never the other way around.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Powerful, Humility, Stories

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.68, B&H Publishing Group

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• Arya Maloney updates the basis and practice of transpersonal psychology by using the spiritual principles of India's masters and the transformational alchemy inherent in his clients' processes. His work is both enlightening and informative.

  Arnold Mindell

  Spiritual, Psychology, Principles

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• Each time the losses and deceptions of life teach us about impermanence, they bring us closer to the truth. When you fall from a great height, there is only one possible place to land: on the ground-the ground of truth. And if you have the understanding that comes from spiritual practice, then falling is in no way a disaster, but the discovery of an inner refuge.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Fall, Loss

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Jul 24, 2015

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• Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.

  William Blake

  Art, Done, Lost

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.362, Pearson Education

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• The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself as a person distinct from everyone else. The notion of a static self is the primary obstruction to the realization of our unique potential as an individual being. By dissolving this fiction through a centered vision of the transiency, ambiguity, and contingency of experience, we are freed to create ourself anew.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Independent, Unique, Self

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• The essence of practice is always the same: instead of falling prey to a chain reaction of revenge or self-hatred, we gradually learn to catch the emotional reaction and drop the story lines.

  Pema Chodron

  Revenge, Fall, Emotional

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.46, Shambhala Publications

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• PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Museums, Periods

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.186, University of Georgia Press

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• One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.

  Samuel Wilson

  Technology, Medicine, Challenges

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• Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Time, Couple, Dad

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• Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Expectations, Vices

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance.

  Mao Zedong

  Study, Theory, Significance

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.155, Lulu.com

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