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Practice Quotes by Sharon Salzberg
- With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others.
- When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.
- As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust.
- There are many different ways to practice meditation; it's good to experiment until you find one that seems to suit you.
- I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied, no matter what…
- It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or writer, or salesclerk,…
- The movement of the heart as we practice generosity in the outer world mirrors the movement of the heart when we let go of conditioned…
- As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.
- Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.
- Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in…
- Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.
- Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
- The critical element in meditation practice is beginning again. Everyone loses focus at times, everyone loses interest at times, and everyone gets distracted over and…
- Chanting is a simple practice. When you notice you are thinking about something else during the chant, let go of the thought and come back…
- What is important is not getting intoxicated with a good feeling or getting intoxicated even with an insight. These take many forms in our practice.…
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