Practice Quotes

There will be times, for example, when you feel you are faking it. However hard you try genuinely to practice, it just doesn't feel right. And on the rare occasions it does feel authentic, the sensation is over almost before it began. So, try to be content with your practice, whatever it feels like, even when you are doing little more than paying it lip service, because at least you are making an effort.

~ Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better.

~ Pema Chödrön

No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.

~ Jack Kornfield

To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.

~ Jack Kornfield

I think they paid attention to their lives and became wise. For those of us who don’t arrive at wisdom naturally, meditation is one way to get there through practice.

~ Sylvia Boorstein

Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.

~ Jack Kornfield

There are several different kinds of painful feelings that we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate to these feelings of discomfort or pain is an important part of meditation practice, because it is one of the very first things that we open to as our practice develops.

~ Jack Kornfield

This meditation is called nontheistic, which doesn't have anything to do with believing in God or not believing in God, but means that nobody but yourself can tell you what to accept and what to reject.The practice of meditation helps us to get to know this basic energy really well, with tremendous honesty and warmheartedness, and we begin to figure out for ourselves what is poison and what is medicin, which means something different for each of us.

~ Pema Chödrön

Meditation practice is how we discover basic goodness and learn to cultivate bodhichitta. With this view, practice, and activity, even the most mundane situation becomes a vehicle for awakening.

~ Pema Chödrön

In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.

~ Jack Kornfield

Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel, when asked how to strike a better balance between family, work and self-realisation says: You need the intention, good scheduling, and you have to be creative. If you don't find time to practice, one of the three is missing.

~ Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel

Observation and expansion are two elements of meditation. While a teacher may guide you to have the right posture and give instruction on following the breath, no one can teach you about the experience. It comes through practice and patience.

~ Debra Moffitt

Up there in that room, as I see it, is the reading and the thinking-through, a theory of rivers, of trees moving, of falling light. Here on the river, as I lurch against a freshening of the current, is the practice of rivers. In navigating by the glow of the Milky Way, the practice of light. In steadying with a staff, the practice of wood.

~ Barry López

Discernment is trust put into practice.

~ Peter Santos

You cannot forgive just once, forgiveness is a daily practice.

~ Sonia Rumzi

Always be kind. Every one needs it. Practice forgiveness.

~ Debasish Mridha

Manny has swung with many men, but many men never seen Manny's blissful swing.

~ Anthony Liccione

People who become successful take every “today’s victory” as a rehearsal for tomorrows trophy.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The fact that you lack the fruits is not a proof that you don’t have seeds. It’s not too late to drop your potentials into a good soil. Do it now, harvest awaits you soon!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

True leaders are ready to sweat when making rehearsal, than to cry tears when actually practicing. To save the tears, be ready to sweat!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You can only know how confident you are when you kick-start. True confidence is not found in excessive rehearsals; it comes from experience. Plan, prepare, but will willing to make it happen!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

One of the most common areas where we fail is when we begin to think that genetic make-up of a person determines how far he can lead. Leadership is learnt and practiced!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When you take time to study and practice the word of God, you become like a barrel of great beauty, filled with the energy drink of love with which you inspire people to inspire other people!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A practice of giving [it] your best, means you don't just have to hope for it.

~ T.f. Hodge

An accumulation of pennies is a fortune. Day-to-day practice is perfection. A dream realized is nothing more than many steps taken toward the borders of once-impossible.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need to be remembered; practice forms habits and habits make memory unnecessary. The rule is nothing; the application is everything.

~ Henry Hazlitt

Love and magic have a great deal in common. they enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

~ Nora Roberts

The people who move forward and overcome their fears do not have some special powers or a magic pill they take, they just have more practice in facing their fears.

~ Dave Anderson

Be kind and generous to your fellows, but hard and relentless with yourself.

~ Franz Bardon

A man becomes unrighteous just because of his unholy thoughts but graduates to become a wicked by bringing his unholy thoughts into practice.

~ Santosh Thankachan

Any self-defense situation has the potential to quickly become A 'life and death' situation, therefore your practice of martial arts should be undertaken, as if your very life depends on it . . .

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

Humility puts others first because first takes on new meaning through the practice of humility.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Confidence sometimes requires purposeful preparation and practice.

~ Sam Owen

Perfection may be an island out of reach, but setting your sails toward it makes for a magnificent voyage.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Once they got into the idea of seeing directly for themselves they also saw there was no limit to the amount they could say. It was a confidence building assignment too, because what they wrote, even though seemingly trivial, was nevertheless their own thing, not a mimicking of someone else’s.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

The ultimate relationship is within thyself, knowing that all other relationships are a projection or a reflection of our ability or inability to love.

~ Erin Fall Haskell

The best practice is to be around people who absolutely disagree. Grace in conflict is a study in love.

~ Bryant Mcgill

We didn't come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you doing more than us.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

You don't learn knife skills at cooking school, because they give you only six onions and no matter how hard you focus on those six onions there are only six, and you're not going to learn as much as when you cut up a hundred.

~ Bill Buford

Religion, culture, education are all things that sound wonderful in theory. In practice, however, they are not so wonderful.

~ Marty Rubin