Practice Quotes - Page 37

• Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not just with your body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Moving, Health

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• It is easier to develop the mind through meditation than it is just through athletic practice. If you put the two together, it will be unbelievable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Two

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• Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Winning

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• Use the practice of mind and body; in order to make those moves perfectly, you have to pull your mind out of its mundane thoughts and awarenesses and bring it into the body movement.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Health, Buddhism

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• One or two of my friends set longevity records for people who had AIDS. What they did, incredibly hard though it was, was to practice meditation, positive thinking and they worked out physically quite a bit.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Positive Thinking, Buddhism

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• Live shows are fun - sometimes. But you have to practice for months on end.

  Jeff Lynne

  Fun, Months, Sometimes

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• The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research.

  Joshua Leonard

  Character, Knowing, Connections

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• But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.

  Marat Safin

  People, Needs, Care

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• It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

  Marat Safin

  Russia, Break Through, People

  "Safin tries to hold serve with emotions, career". Interview with Jill Lieber, usatoday30.usatoday.com. April 27, 2005.

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• Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities.

  Maurice Strong

  Past, Opportunity, Perfect

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• For a while, I think in 1994, it got to where I didn't want to practice.

  Payne Stewart

  Sports, Thinking, Want

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• In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Journey, Humanity

  "A Swami and His Father" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2011.

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• Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance.

  Susan Wiggs

  Writing, Attention, Crafts

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• If I say I am not a politician, it is because I did not go to school to do political science. But at the end of the day, I think we are all born politicians. It's practical. All you gotta do is practice.

  George Weah

  School, Thinking, Political

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• The aim of all spiritual practice is love.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Wise, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• It is truly difficult to make a democracy. Democracy, like arty dream, is not made with spiritual words but with reflection and practice. It is not what I say that says I am a democrat, that I am not racist or machista but what I do. What I say must not be contradicted by what I do. It is what I do that bespeaks my faithfulness or not to what I say.

  Paulo Freire

  Dream, Spiritual, Reflection

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• You can go through hundreds of lifetimes in one, and it all starts with daily meditation practice.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Meditation Practice

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• You don't have to meditate. You don't have to practice self-discovery and Buddhism. You should only practice self-discovery if you really have had it with the human world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Discovery

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• Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Yoga, Buddhism

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• I would encourage you to follow the pathway to enlightenment, to learn to meditate, to practice mindfulness, and not to really care what anybody thinks about you, including yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Thinking

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• Meditation is a bright, hopeful practice in which we learn to make our mind quiet so that the infinite, perfect light of enlightenment can flow through us.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Perfect

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• Meditation is the art of life. Meditation is not simply a practice. It is an experience, awareness, and a way of perceiving life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Buddhism, Meditation

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• Everyone meditates in their own way. Some people sit and practice formal mediation techniques for many hours a day while others spontaneously meditate while watching a sunset, listening to music, or participating in athletics.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sunset, Buddhism, People

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• Meditation is something that is indigenous to the heart, which makes it hard to talk about. We don't necessarily need to talk about it too much other than to get a sense of the practice.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Buddhism, Meditation

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• Through the practice of concentration and various techniques, we silence the mind and we enter into a flow of perfect light. We go outside of the parameters of mind and thought and experience nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Perfect

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