“Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.” KindGovernmentJobsBoysPracticeDemocracyConnectionsAbuseAccessDictatorPrivilegedGood JobAbuse Of PowerCorridorsFamily Connections Author:Jimmy Reid
“The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research.” IfsFirstsI CanCharacterPracticeKnowingCircumstancesResearchConnectionsManifest Author:Joshua Leonard
“Daydreaming defeats practice; those of us who browse TV while working out will never reach the top ranks. Paying full attention seems to boost the mind's processing speed, strengthen synaptic connections, and expand or create neural networks for what we are practicing.” MindSeemsMotivationalAttentionPracticeTvsConnectionsDefeatWork OutSpeedDaydreamingBoostProcessingNeural Networks Book:Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence Source: Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence
“Some of the nations of Europe who believe in the one wife system have actually forbidden a plurality of wives by their laws; and the consequences are that the whole country among them is overrun with the most abominable practices: adulteries and unlawful connections through all their villages, towns, cities, and country places to a most fearful extent.” BelieveCountryWholeLawNationsCitiesPracticeWifeConsequenceEuropeConnectionsTownsVillageFearfulForbiddenAdulteryPolygamyUnlawfulCity And Country Author:Orson Pratt
“[On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as athletic ability, celebrity of parents, and alumni connections. It is remarkable how little agitation there is against those practices.” GivingLittlesActionSocialParentAbilityRacePracticeBenefitsConnectionsUniversityFactorsRemarkableAthleticBoostAdmissionAffirmative ActionAffirmativeAgitationAlumniAthletic Ability Author:Barbara Bergmann
“Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.” MindBodyUnderstandingPracticeStruggleKeysMindfulnessConnectionsWeightEmpoweringMindful Living Author:Nhat Hanh
“Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin to wake up to a larger connection. After a while, people tend to find that there is some muse that they are connecting to.” PeopleWritingSpiritualPracticePathConnectionsWake UpMuseConnectingSpiritual PathSpiritual Practice Author:Julia Cameron
“Yoga practice seems to be used to access some deeper dimension or some enlightened state. Understand right now there is no connection between flexibility and enlightenment.” StatesSeemsUsedPracticeRight NowEnlightenmentYogaConnectionsDeeperAccessDimensionsEnlightenedFlexibilityYoga Practice Author:Bryan Kest
“I have a spiritual practice which helps to keep me grounded and centered. Yoga is vital because it keeps me in full awareness and connection with my breath. I keep a gratitude log, which helps to remind me of all the blessings I experience daily.” HelpingSpiritualPracticeAwarenessGratitudeBlessingYogaConnectionsBreathsGroundedSpiritual Practice Author:Grace Gealey
“We take drugs because we want to feel a sense of connection, and we seek God for the same reason. The search, no matter where it's directed - divine union or cocaine - begins with pain that comes from believing you're separate from love. The key is using spiritual practice to turn inward, toward awareness, which is what we actually are.” WantFeelsBelieveMatterReasonPainSpiritualTurnsPracticeAwarenessDivineKeysDrugConnectionsUnionsInwardCocaineSpiritual Practice Author:Angel Grant
“Recent literature on transsexualism in the lesbian community draws connections with the practices of sadomasochism.” LiteratureCommunityPracticeDrawsConnections Author:Sheila Jeffreys
“There are abusive practices that have been used in connection with various mental attitudes or feelings. Over-medication in respect to depression is an example that comes to mind. The aversive therapies that have been used in connection with same-sex attraction have contained some serious abuses that have been recognized over time within the professions.” MindHas BeensFeelingsUsedSexAttitudePracticeExampleSeriousConnectionsAbuseVariousAttractionProfessionTherapyMedicationAbusiveMental Attitude Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice -- Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann (July 11, 1868)” BeliefPracticeConditionsLettersConnectionsPermanentCollapseTheoreticalJuly Author:Karl Marx
“I refuse to turn to theology to justify the life or redeem it. There is a question always of the connection to the eternal. I say to myself above all, keep alive your conviction that there are sacred elements in the life in the practice of the life that must be respected. But the conviction in the existence of the sacred does not necessarily imply that you need to believe in a creator, because we are the ones that made the sacred.” NeedsBelieveDoeMadeTurnsExistencePracticeAliveElementsEternalConnectionsSacredRefuseConvictionCreatorTheologyJustify Author:Stanley Kunitz
“When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice. Only in this moment can we discover that which is timeless. Only here can we find the love that we seek. Love in the past is simply memory, and love in the future is fantasy. Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world.” WorldHeartEndsMomentsRealityPastSpiritualUnderstandingMemoriesPracticeFantasyBattleLetting GoConnectionsAnd LovePresent MomentTimelessFinding PeaceSpiritual PracticeMemories And Love Author:Jack Kornfield
“If you want to love, take the time to listen to your heart. In most ancient and wise cultures it is a regular practice for people to talk to their heart. There are rituals, stories, and meditative skills in every spiritual tradition that awaken the voice of the heart. To live wisely, this practice is essential, because our heart is the source of our connection to and intimacy with all of life. And life is love. This mysterious quality of love is all around us, as real as gravity... Yet how often we forget about love.” PeopleIfsWantHeartRealSoulStoriesSpiritualLife IsCultureVoiceForgetLove IsQualityPracticeWiseSourceSkillsEssentialsTraditionConnectionsAncientMysteriousIntimacyRitualGravityListen To Your Heart Author:Jack Kornfield
“As a Jew and a psychologist, I understand the stress that religious communities feel in connection with questioning of circumcision... I raise these questions out of deep caring and compassion, for our community generally, and our male infants in particular. We are inflicting, generally, unrecognized harm with circumcision, and the perpetuation of this harm is far greater a concern than the discomfort that comes from confronting the advisability of this practice. Many Jews who do not circumcise in North America, South America, Europe, and Israel support this view.” FeelsAmericaCommunityReligiousViewsCompassionPracticeSupportGreaterParticularEuropeConcernConnectionsStressRaisesSouthMalesJewIsraelCaringHarmQuestioningInfantDiscomfortPsychologistOur CommunityNorth AmericaConfrontingSouth AmericaCircumcisionReligious CommunityCaring And Compassion Author:Ronald Goldman
“Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.” SoulInspirationSufferingPracticeMeditationConnectionsDuesMeditation PracticeDisconnection Author:Amit Ray
“And it occurred to me that in this new millennial life of instant and ubiquitous connection, you don't in fact communicate so much as leave messages for one another, these odd improvisational performances, often sorry bits and samplings of ourselves that can't help but seem out of context. And then when you do finally reach someone, everyone's so out of practice or too hopeful or else embittered that you wonder if it would be better not to attempt contact at all.” IfsFactsHelpingSeemsWould BeBitsWonderPracticeMessagesConnectionsPerformancesSorryCommunicateContactOddInstantHopefulLeaving MeMillennialsOf ContextSampling Author:Chang-Rae Lee