All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.
But I still have to practice hard if I'm going to play my best tennis.
Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.
You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this.
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
Though we claim to believe the whole of Scripture, in practice we frequently deny much of it by ignoring it.
We must practice modesty, not only in our looks, but also in our whole deportment, and particularly in our dress, our walk, our conversation, and all similar actions.
To think is to practice brain chemistry.
It is significant that the socialist mentality is usually also an atheistic mentality, where atheism is understood not so much as the disbelief in God as the hatred of God˜an attitude as precarious logically as it has been destructive in practice. There is an important sense in which religion as traditionally understood reconciles humanity to imperfection and to failure. Since the socialist sets out to abolish failure, traditional religion is worse than _de trop_: it is an impediment to perfection.
You achieve long-term success step by step. Try to achieve your goals one at a time, like you do target practice.
The affairs of the world will go on forever, do not delay the practice of meditation. Once you have met with the profound instructions from a meditation master, with single pointed determination, set about realizing the Truth.
You're a wicked man. " "Thank you. It's taken years of diligent practice.
Everything we do, our every objective, must be undertaken for the sake of. . . purity of heart. . . we must practice the reading of the Scripture, together with all the other virtuous activities. . . to hold our hearts free of the harm of every dangerous passion and in order to rise step by step to the high point of love.
Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.
To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets. They plan holdups and practice karate. They will rape defenseless adolescents. They wear pants. . . Life has become impossible.
In practice in 2007 I had a limit that probably would've weighed almost 30 pounds.
I pray as part of my mindfulness practice and try to recount my day, all my triumphs and foibles, before I go to sleep at night. These practices keep me calm for the most part.
Practice following your intuition in everyday things, trusting your gut feelings moment by moment and acting on them as best you can. As you learn to trust yourself in smaller matters, you will build power and confidence to take bigger risks and deal with the larger issues in your life successfully.
