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Practice Quotes by Dalai Lama
- I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you have right attitude…
- If we see pride among people who have no idea about Dharma, it is understandable. However, if afflictive emotions and haughtiness are present among Dharma…
- Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.
- Whatever forms of meditation you practice, the most important point is to apply mindfulness continuously, and make a sustained effort. It is unrealistic to expect…
- 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…
- Awareness of death is the very bedrock of the entire path. Until you have developed this awareness, all other practices are obstructed.
- No matter what activity or practice we are pursuing, there isn't anything that isn't made easier through constant familiarity and training (I think you can…
- I have observed that religious practice is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness itself. I have also suggested that, whether a…
- It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.
- You are the people who are shaping a better world. One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.
- My message is the practice of compassion, love and kindness.
- Compassion can be put into practice if one recognizes the fact that every human being is a member of humanity and the human family regardless…
- Human beings will continue to deceive and overpower one another. Basically, everyone exists in the very nature of suffering, so to abuse or mistreat each…
- I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I'm not…
- If we want spiritual development, the practice of patience is essential.
- Love is a simple practice yet it is very beneficial for the individual who practices it as well as for the community in which he…
- The practice of patience guards us against losing our presence of mind. It enables us to remain undisturbed, even when the situation is really difficult.…
- For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without…
- We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid…
- Some people consider the practice of love and compassion is only related to religious practice and if they are not interested in religion they neglect…
- Unfortunately, love and compassion have been omitted from too many spheres of social interaction for too long. Usually confined to family and home, their practice…
- Giving up attachment to the world does not mean that you set yourself apart from it. Generating a desire for others to be happy increases…
- In spiritual growth, it is important to avoid imbalances between academic or intellectual learning and practical implementation. Otherwise there is a danger that too much…
- My message is always the same: to cultivate and practice love, kindness, compassion and tolerance.
- In daily practice, reflect on the benefits of love, compassion and kindness, then reflect on the disadvantages of anger. Such continuous contemplation, the growing appreciation…
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