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Practice Quotes by Pema Chodron
- When we start out on a spiritual path we often have ideals we think we're supposed to live up to. We feel we're supposed to…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.
- Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is…
- If we want there to be peace in the world, we have to be brave enough to soften what is rigid in our hearts, to…
- Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don't interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it occur to us…
- It has a lot to do with developing patience, not with the check-out person so much, but with your own pain that arises, the rawness…
- We can stop struggling with what occurs and see its true face without calling it the enemy. It helps to remember that our spiritual practice…
- Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.
- One way to practice staying present is to simply sit still for a while and listen. For one minute, listen to the sounds close to…
- The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval, we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness, we are practicing harshness. The more…
- When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years, I’ve come to…
- When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow…
- 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…
- Rejoicing in the good fortune of others is a practice that can help us when we feel emotionally shut down and unable to connect with…
- As we practice, we begin to know the difference between our fantasy and reality.
- The essence of practice is always the same: instead of falling prey to a chain reaction of revenge or self-hatred, we gradually learn to catch…
- Patience takes courage. It is not an ideal state of calm. In fact, when we practice patience we will see our agitation far more clearly.
- The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave…
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