Letting go Quote by Frederick Lenz

We need to be sincere in our practice, but at the same time we can't take ourselves too seriously.

— Tenzin Palmo

Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn.

— John Cleese

Some people get attached to their practice. They get good at it, but even becoming a good meditator can become a hindrance.

— Eckhart Tolle

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of performing these small ceremonies regularly, and being as nearly accurate as possible with regard to the…

— Aleister Crowley

Those who practice deserve your respect. If you respect them, you respect yourself. It's easy to be critical, but it does no good. What's…

— Frederick Lenz

Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.

— Jonathan Haidt

Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking…

— Ralph Ellison

Again and again we need to appreciate the subtle workings of the teachings and the practice, and even when there is no extraordinary, dramatic…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“Most people won’t continue doing something they aren’t passionate about, especially when it gets hard. Putting an activity through painful practice is a great…

— Jeff Goins

Practice has to be a process of endless disappointment. We have to see that everything we demand (and even get) eventually disappoints us. This…

— Joko Beck

The practice is enlightenment. Some people find this idea not to their liking. They want to get enlightenment in a flash. This way they…

— Tim Ward