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Practice Quotes by Chogyam Trungpa
- Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no…
- Our life is an endless journey; it is like a broad highway that extends infinitely into the distance. The practice of meditation provides a vehicle…
- We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot of…
- In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than…
- Nowness is the essence of meditation. Whatever one does, whatever one tries to practice, is trying to see what is here and now. One becomes…
- The main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego. This means stepping out of ego's constant desire for…
- If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult practices. But some…
- Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that's not the point. It's developing a friendly attitude…
- In fact, a person always finds when he begins to practice meditation that all sorts of problems are brought out. Any hidden aspects of your…
- The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.
- We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate…
More Practice Quotes
- Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it. — Richard Bach
- In practice, I've had a presence in China since 1998 with my commercial spaces and shops. — Giorgio Armani
- School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- 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 have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. — Jane Austen
- I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. — Teresa of Avila
- 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
- Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great… — Teresa of Avila
- A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about… — Irving Babbitt