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Practice Quotes by Ajahn Chah
- 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…
- Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe... Why do we have time to…
- If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don't practice you're like a ladle in a soup pot. The ladle is in the soup pot…
- You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to…
- We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.
- A good practice is to ask yourself very sincerely, 'Why was I born?' Ask yourself this question in the morning, in the afternoon, and at…
- To observe and watch one's own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has…
- To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.
- We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others. We should conquer ourselves, rather than conquer…
- The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.
More Practice Quotes
- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius
- I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. — Teresa of Avila
- Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the… — Hosea Ballou
- To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. — Henry Ward Beecher
- In practice, I've had a presence in China since 1998 with my commercial spaces and shops. — Giorgio Armani