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Practice Quotes by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
- There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your…
- Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself.
- Live your life without hurting anybody. Harmlessness is a most powerful form of Yoga and it will take you speedily to your goal. This is…
- Meditation is a deliberate attempt to pierce into the higher states of consciousness and finally go beyond it. The art of meditation is the art…
- Whatever you may have to do, watch your mind. Also you must have moments of complete inner peace and quiet, when your mind is absolutely…
- You begin by letting thoughts flow and watching them. The very observation slows down the mind till it stops altogether. Once the mind is quiet,…
- Stop, look, investigate, ask the right questions, come to the right conclusions and have the courage to act on them and see what happens. The…
- Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave…
- Watch your thoughts as you watch the street traffic. People come and go; you register without response. It may not be easy in the beginning,…
- Pain is physical; suffering is mental. Beyond the mind there is no suffering. Pain is essential for the survival of the body, but none compels…
- Whatever state I am in, I see it as a state of mind to be accepted as it is.
- The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to…
- There is only one meditation - the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts.
- When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between pain and pleasure…
- What kind of Yoga do you want to practice, the Yoga of getting or the Yoga of giving?... One enslaves, the other liberates.
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