T Quotes
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“To practice virtue is to selflessly offer assistance to others, giving without limitation one's time, abilities, and possessions in service, whenever and wherever needed, without prejudice concerning the identity of those in need.”
Source: Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu
“To practice with an end in view is to have one eye on the practice and the other on the end, which is lack of concentration, lack of sincerity.”
“To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.”
“To practice zazen, Suzuki-roshi often reminded his students, is to study the self. By 1983, the senior priests at Zen Center had logged a lot of hours in the study hall. The work and meditation schedule they kept was famous for its rigor. Typically, they sat for almost two hours every morning, beginning at five, attended a midday service, and sat again for an hour or two in the evening until nine. During the two annual Practice Periods, the daily meditation periods were extended. Once a month, they sat for twelve or fourteen hours—a one-day sesshin (intensive retreat). At the end of each Practice Period, they sat a seven day sesshin—twelve to fourteen hours a day for seven straight days, during which they took their meager meals in the zendo, and slept on their cushions. In fifteen years, Reb, Yvonne, Lew, and the other senior students who'd kept the daily schedule had each sat zazen for at least 10,000 to 15,000 hours.
And yet, by any common-sense standard, the most seasoned meditators at Zen Center repeatedly flunked simple tests of self-awareness. "I wonder," wrote a former Zen Center student in a letter to Yvonne in 1987, "if in some cases doing zazen doesn't augment or aggravate the dissociative process—as if in some way it cauterizes the personality and seals it off, encapsulates it, widens the breach between heart and mind.”
Source: Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center
“To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all.”
“To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel in useless daydreaming of the past and future. To "rest in the present" is a state of magical simplicity.”
Source: Zen Meditation in Plain English
“To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel in useless daydreaming of the past and future.”
Source: Zen Meditation in Plain English
“To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant”
“To praise great actions is in some sense to share them.”
“To praise great actions with sincerity may be said to be taking part in them.”
“To praise is an investment in happiness.”
“To praise is the highest good, and censure
is the beginning of hatred,
yet to speak maliciously of one's neighbor
is, after all, Attic honey.”
“To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness.”
“To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.”
“To praise one thing is not to damn another.”
Source: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel
“To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.”
“To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.”
Source: Selected poems
“To prawda, że bez strategii employer branding będziesz działać na oślep. To nieprawda, że droga do niej musi być zawiła i długa.”
Source: Lepszy pracodawca
“To pray 'your kingdom come' at Jesus' bidding meant to align oneself with his kingdom movement.”
“To pray against temptation, and yet rush into occasions, is to thrust your fingers into the fire, and then pray they might not be burnt.”
“To pray as God would have us pray is the greatest achievement of earth.”
“To pray diligently is more than half the task.”
“To pray in the name of Christ is to pray as one who is at one with Christ, whose minid is the mind of Christ, whose desires are the desires of Christ, and whose purpose is one with that of Christ.”
“To pray is no small thing. It is nothing less than a sacred pilgrimage into the heart of the whole world.”
“To pray is not to bring the weight of calculated logic to the prayer, for that is our attempt to inform the mind of God. Rather, it is to bring the whole of our hearts to the prayer, for that is us pleading for the heart of God.”
“To pray is nothing more involved than to open the door, giving Jesus access to our needs and permitting Him to exercise His own power in dealing with them.”
Source: Prayer
“To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.”
Source: Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God
“To pray is to cast off your burdens, it is to tear away your rags, it is to shake off your diseases, it is to be filled with spiritual vigor, it is to reach the highest point of Christian health.”
“To pray is to change. This is a great grace. How good of God to provide a path whereby our lives can be taken over by love and joy and peace and patience and kindness and goodness and faithfulness and gentleness and self-control.”
Source: Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home
“To pray is to communicate with the essence. Praying is calling home.”
Source: Better to be able to love than to be loveable
“To pray is to descend with the mind into the heart, and there to stand before the face of the Lord, ever-present, all seeing, within you.”
“To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.”
“To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.”
Source: I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology
“To pray is to let God into our lives. He knocks and seeks admittance, not only in the solemn hours of secret prayer. He knocks in the midst of your daily work, your daily struggles, your daily grind. That is when you need Him most.”
“To pray is to let Jesus come into our hearts.”
Source: Prayer
“To pray is to let Jesus come into our hearts. It is not our prayer which moves the Lord Jesus. It is Jesus who moves us to pray.”
Source: Prayer
“To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.”
Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“To pray is to mount on eagle's wings above the clouds and get into the clear heaven where God dwelleth.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 12: Sermons 668 to 727
“To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which opens wide the door unto Him and gives Him access to all your needs.”
Source: Prayer
“To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself.”
“To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God - that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.”
“To pray is to plead.”
“To pray is to ponder.”
“To pray is to praise.”
“To pray is to set in motion a force that will crush your skepticism about prayers ability to crush your skepticism.”
“To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.”
Source: Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays
“To pray is, first of all, to let one's mind be empty. It is to cast aside for a while "the self" that has existed until now, letting only God live in one's heart.”
“To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.”
“To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.”
“To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.”