Practice Quotes

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We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple, as a place to discover… — Jack Kornfield
When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment.… — Jack Kornfield
I was in the show for 21 days once-the 21 greatest days of my life. You know, you never handle your luggage in the show,… — Kevin Costner
The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton
There is another way in which this idea of mercy and selfless charity can be put into practice; that is, by looking upon work as… — Swami Vivekananda
We see many persons talking the most wonderfully fine things about charity and about equality and the rights of other people and all that, but… — Swami Vivekananda
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. — Heywood Hale Broun
Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. Oneness can only be promoted by the practice of love. — Sathya Sai Baba
The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can't see with the eye or hear with the ear. The only way… — Ajahn Chah
There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
If your everyday practice is open to all your emotions, to all the people you meet, to all the situations you encounter, without closing down,… — Pema Chodron
To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking… — Dalai Lama
There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a… — Pema Chodron
Peace, or freedom from conflict, is the absolute core of happiness. It is in learning to watch our sense of peace that we avoid unhappiness.… — Hugh Prather
If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis. — Douglas Coupland
If you want to love, take the time to listen to your heart. In most ancient and wise cultures it is a regular practice for… — Jack Kornfield
Our practice is not to clear up the mystery. It is to make the mystery clear. — Robert Baker Aitken
Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your… — Ted Koppel
Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst - and that brings… — Jennifer Granholm
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others. — Horace

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