Practice Quotes - Page 151

I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice.

Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.

Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.

If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.

Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.

To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value.

God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.

The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.

The practice of Transcendental Meditation creates a natural situation in the mind so that the mind entertains right thoughts, useful thoughts, thoughts that are cherished by nature and whose fulfillment is worked out by all the laws of nature.

Believing takes practice.

At no time have I ever said that people should be stripped of their right to the insanity of belief in God. If they want to practice this kind of irrationality, that's their business. It won't get them anywhere; it certainly won't make them happier or more compassionate human beings; but if they want to chew that particular cud. they're welcome to it.

We must determine to hear God's Words and put them into practice.

Okay, why don't we practice your talking with Marguerite? OUT LOUD. I'll be her." Julius stared at him blankly. "Now?" "No, I was thinking maybe next April. Then you could maybe give her a call, arrange a date..." He arched his eyebrow in question, and snapped, "Yes, NOW.

Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves.

If I go three days without vocalizing, the voice is gone.

I rarely accept things on blind faith, especially the orthodoxy of any given practice, or any given practicum. I'm like, "Oh come on. Is this the way to do things?"

The generality of men are so bound within the sphere of their circumstances that they have not even the courage to get out of them through their ideas, and if we see a few whom, in a way, speculation over great things makes incapable of mean ones, we find still more with whom the practice of small things takes away the feeling for great ones.

I meditate on a regular basis and reap benefits from this practice

Taking a step without knowing the end result is the only way we develop faith and not only this, it's a practice that connects us with a power greater than ourselves.

When I was in film school I was learning more theory than practice.

Humor simultaneously wounds and heals, indicts and pardons, diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain, and those who possess and honestly practice it make themselves more through a willingness to make themselves less.

Every human being is a Muslim by nature, not by religious practice. By nature!