Practice Quotes - Page 8

• Loving yourself—it really takes a daily practice.

  RuPaul

  Loving Yourself, Loving You

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• Spiritual realization is theoretically the easiest thing and in practice the most difficult thing there is. It is the easiest because it is enough to think of God. It is the most difficult because human nature is forgetfulness of God.

  Frithjof Schuon

  Spiritual, Thinking, Realization

  Frithjof Schuon, James S. Cutsinger (2004). “Prayer Fashions Man: Frithjof Schuon on the Spiritual Life”, p.179, World Wisdom, Inc

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• Which is to say that culture is not a reflex of political economy, but
  that society is now a reflex of key shifts in music theory and practice....
  [Sampladelia is] the sound made by those early-twentieth-century discoveries
  in particle physics and relativiity theory, the projection of the minds of
  Einstein, Heisenbery, and Bohr, their fateful explorations of liquid time,
  curving space, uncertainty fields and relativity theorems, into densely
  configured and fully ambivalent android music tracks

  Arthur Kroker

  Discovery, Space, Keys

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• Power is not a matter of one dominant individual or institutions, but instead manifests in interconnected, contradictory sites where regimes of knowledge and practice circulate and take hold. This way of understanding the dispersion of power helps us realize that power is not simply about certain individuals being targeted for death or exclusion by a ruler, but instead about the creation of norms that distribute vulnerability and security.

  Dean Spade

  Understanding, Matter, Way

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• In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find this sort of hard to believe because, until you get good at it, knitting seems to cause those ailments. The twitch above my right eye will disappear with knitting practice.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Believe, Eye, Knitting

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.51, Storey Publishing

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• It is not enough to say, 'We are Muslims and have an ideology or our own': we must also be in a position to show that our ideology is vital enough to withstand the pressure of the changing times, and to decided in what way the fact of our being Muslims will affect the course of our lives: in other words, we must find out whether Islam can offer us precise directives for the formation of our society, and whether its inspiration is strong enough in us to translate these directives into practice.

  Muhammad Asad

  Strong, Inspiration, Islam

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• Every single choice we make, no matter how small, is the ground where who we are meets what is in the world. And the fruits of that essential relationship- the intimate, fertile conversation between our own heart's wisdom and the way the world has emerged before us- becomes a lifelong practice of deep and sacred listening for the next right thing we are required to do. We make the only choice that feels authentic and honest, necessary and true in that moment.

  Wayne Muller

  Heart, Choices, Listening

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• Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.

  David Halberstam

  Sports, Race, Games

  David Halberstam (2012). “The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• Staying curious and open is what makes growth
  possible, and it requires practice to maintain that mindset. To keep learning, we have to avoid the temptation to slide into narrow, safe views of what we do.

  Scott Berkun

  Views, Temptation, Growth

  Scott Berkun (2008). “Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management”, p.4, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Darwinism has failed in practice. The whole aim and purpose of Darwinism is to show how modern forms descended from ancient forms, that is, to construct reliable phylogenies [evolutionary family trees]. In this it has utterly failed.

  Norman Macbeth

  Tree, Purpose, Ancient

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• A unifying factor between the different traditions and lineages of Tantra, is that it is feminine in nature. It acknowledges the feminine as the basis from which all the practices spring. Therefore, Tantra is by its nature, the understanding that all phenomenal existence, the universe, or cosmos, that we experience is feminine in nature.

  Zeena Schreck

  Spring, Understanding, Different

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

  Duncan Sheik

  Buddhist, Thinking, Profound

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• Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration

  Duncan Sheik

  Buddhist, Inspiration, Lacking

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• Buddhism and Christianity are incompatible because there is no God in Buddhism - particularly in Theravada Buddhism. But they are also allies because their values and practices are compatible and they can work together - indeed, they would benefit greatly from doing so.

  Ninian Smart

  Buddhism, Working Together, Allies

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• A remedy [for masturbation] which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision, especially when there is any degree of phimosis. The operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anaesthetic, as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment, as it may well be in some cases. The soreness which continues for several weeks interrupts the practice, and if it had not previously become too firmly fixed, it may be forgotten and not resumed.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Pain, Successful, Boys

  "Plain Facts for Old and Young". Book by John Harvey Kellogg, 1877.

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• Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife.

  Chanakya

  Kings, Home, Wealth

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• Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost without a commander; and a woman is lost without a husband.

  Chanakya

  Husband, Ignorance, Army

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• Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you really don't believe anything, and you're in the worst kind of despair.

  Julius Lester

  Believe, Despair, Have Faith

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• If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality and so constituted a kind of acknowledgment of my own preposterousness, admitting my bad faith in good faith, so to speak.

  Ben Lerner

  Admitting, Kind, Speak

  Ben Lerner (2012). “Leaving the Atocha Station”, p.58, Granta Books

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• There are many Christians who are Christians in theory only, and they are worldlings in practice.

  John Alexander Dowie

  Christian, Theory

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• When your attention moves into the Now, there is an alertness. It is as if you were waking up from a dream, the dream of thought, the dream of past and future. Such clarity, such simplicity. No room for problem-making. Just this moment as it is.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Dream, Moving, Past

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.44, New World Library

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• Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Spiritual, Community, Building

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• Legalism insists on conformity to manmade religious rules and requirements, which are often unspoken but are nevertheless very real... There are far too many instances within Christendom where our traditions and rules are, in practice, more important than God's commands.

  Jerry Bridges

  Religious, Real, Important

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• Like I said, repetition in practice and hard work.

  Jerry Rice

  Hard Work, Said, Repetition

  Interview with Doug Farrar, sports.yahoo.com. August 4, 2010.

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• By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Journey, Illumination

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.9, Rodale

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