Practice Quotes

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The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga. — Sivananda
Through repeated practice of the body scan over time, we come to grasp the reality of our body as whole in the present moment. This… — Howard Zinn
Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong. — Laozi
Mere physical sitting is not enough. You have to sit carefully and attentively. Let your body and breathing sit. Let your mind and emotions sit.… — Taizan Maezumi
Meditation stills the wandering mind and establishes us forever in a state of peace. — Swami Muktananda
It is better to meditate a little bit with depth than to mediate long with the mind running here and there. If you do not… — Paramahansa Yogananda
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… — Paul Brunton
Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment. — Swami Vivekananda
The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the… — Swami Vivekananda
Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself. — Swami Vivekananda
The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength… — Swami Vivekananda
Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have. — Swami Vivekananda
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… — Swami Vivekananda
When you're centered, your emotions are not hijacking you. — Ray Dalio
Are you experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What's for lunch? Stay! I can't… — Pema Chodron
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… — J. Reuben Clark
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… — J. Reuben Clark
Evolution is the root of atheism, of communism, nazism, behaviorism, racism, economic imperialism, militarism, libertinism, anarchism, and all manner of anti-Christian systems of belief and… — Henry M. Morris
True motherhood is the noblest call of the world, and we look with sorrow upon the practice here in our own United States of limiting… — David O. McKay
Some who have been perfectly healthy and able to bear children have avoided this responsibility, and in doing so have resorted to the use of… — Mark E. Petersen

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