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“It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such rules and principles, there will be numberless occasions on which you will have no guide for your government but your passions..It is in the Bible, you must learn them, and from the Bible how to practice them.”

Should Government Form Certain Passion Principles Practice Essentials Bible Guides Occasions Temper

Author:John Quincy Adams

“I have found, through years of practice, that people garden in order to make something grow; to interact with nature; to share, to find sanctuary, to heal, to honor the earth, to leave a mark. Through gardening, we feel whole as we make our personal work of art upon our land.”

Source: The Inward Garden: Creating a Place of Beauty and Meaning

“To gain confidence, constant practice is essential. Just as a musician needs to practice regularly to retain his touch, the watercolourist needs to be constantly in touch with the medium.”

Needs Practice Essentials Musician Gains Constant Mediums Gaining Confidence

Author:Robert A. Lovett

“Economy and ideology. The claim (presented as an essential postulate of historical materialism) that every fluctuation of politics and ideology can be presented and expounded as an immediate expression of the structure, must be contested in theory as primitive infantilism, and combated in practice with the authentic testimony of Marx, the author of concrete political and historical works.”

Political Practice Economy Expression Theory Essentials Claims Structure Historical Ideology Materialism Concrete Primitive Testimony Fluctuation

Author:Antonio Gramsci

“Every limited mind demands a certain freedom of expression, and the man who cannot express himself satisfactorily without the stimulation derived from the spirited mode of two centuries ago should certainly be permitted to follow without undue restraint a practice so harmless, so free from essential error, and so sanctioned by precedent, as that of employing in his poetical compositions the smooth and inoffensive allowable rhyme.”

Men Should Mind Two Certain Practice Century He Man Expression Demand Essentials Errors Composition Smooth Restraint Rhyme Freedom Of Expression Precedent Spirited Stimulation Employing

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena, you will discover nirvana.”

Realizing Compassion Practice Essentials Mindfulness And Love Emptiness Patience And Love

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As far as domestic democracy, all here present know that democracy means government of the people by the people. While we agree that consultation and participation are essential to every democracy, this is seldom achieved in practice.”

People Knows Mean Government Practice Democracy Essentials Agree Participation Consultation

Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“The discipline of practice every day is essential. When I skip a day, I notice a difference in my playing. After two days, the critics notice, and after three days, so does the audience.”

Doe Two Three Differences Practice Audience Discipline Essentials Critics Two Days Skip

Author:Jascha Heifetz

“The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.”

Principles Practice Five Essentials Islam Pilgrimage Mecca Hajj

Author:Karen Armstrong

“This book is the best treatment of the best American Marxist philosopher-and the best philosopher to emerge from American slums. Young Sidney Hook is essential reading for anyone interested in democratic theory and practice in America.”

Book America Young Reading Practice Theory Essentials Democratic Philosopher Treatment Hook Marxist Slums Theory And Practice Best American

Author:Cornel West

“As the feudal system retained many of the elements of slavery, modified by the traditions, customs, and practices of the primitive communities, so capitalism retained the essential usurpations of feudalism, though professing to guard personal freedom, and to observe equity between the owner and the occupier of the land, the employer and the employed.”

Community Practice Land Essentials Elements Capitalism Tradition Slavery Owners Customs Primitive Employed Equity Employers Personal Freedom Feudalism Usurpation Feudal System

Author:Joshua K. Ingalls

“This is the essential distinction--even opposition--between the painting and the film: the painting is composed subjectively, thefilm objectively. However highly we rate the function of the scenario writer--in actual practice it is rated very low--we must recognize that the film is not transposed directly and freely from the mind by means of a docile medium like paint, but must be cut piece-meal out of the lumbering material of the actual visible world.”

World Mind Mean Film Practice Pieces Cutting Painting Materials Essentials Lows Function Paint Rate Mediums Cinema Meals Visible Distinction Opposition Scenarios Docile

Author:Herbert Read

“Silence is essential for deep transformation. It allows the practice of conscious breathing to become deep and effective. Like still water that reflects things as they are, the calming silence helps us to see things more clearly, and therefore, to be in deeper contact with ourselves and those around us.”

Stills Helping Water Silence Practice Essentials Conscious Transformation Deeper Contact Breathing Silence Is Calming Still Waters

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Spirituality is nothing more than the art of paying attention. When I give my whole heart and mind to a task such as singing - life's worry, suffering, or conflicts don't exist in that moment. Additionally, singing is about breath work, which is the most essential practice to living a conscious & healthy life.”

“It is essential to practice spiritual disciplines along with academic studies.”

Spiritual Practice Study Discipline Essentials Educational Academic Spiritual Disciplines

Author:Sai Baba

“People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And that was essential that the discourse of science or logic related directed to the external world. The other was mythos, what the Greeks called myth, which didn't mean a fantasy story, but it was a narrative associated with ritual and ethical practice but it helped us to address problems for which there were no easy answers, like mortality, cruelty, the sorrow that overtakes us all that's part of the human condition. And these two were not in opposition, we needed both.”

“The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confronted by things too glorious or dreadful to be described. It is essential that he remain the master of all he beholds, hears or conceives; otherwise he will be the slave of illusion, and the prey of madness.”

Ifs Practice Students Masters Essentials Illusion Madness Slave Following Glorious Prey

Book:Magick: In Theory and Practice

Source: Magick: In Theory and Practice

“A sense of thrift is essential to success in business. The businessman must discipline himself to practice economy whenever possible, in his personal life as well as his business affairs.”

Wells Practice Economy Discipline Essentials Affair Business Success Businessman Personal Life Thrift

Author:J. Paul Getty

“For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind.”

Should Mind Persons Helping Compassion Enemy Practice Essentials And Love Grateful Tolerance Cherish Be Grateful Tranquil

Book:In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy

Source: In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy

“Perseverance is the essential requirement in the practice of yoga. It has to be done day by day, week by week, year by year, until the mind is brought to the 'still point' where it is open to the grace of God.”

Years Mind Stills Done Practice Grace Week One Day Essentials Yoga Perseverance Requirements Grace Of God

Author:Bede Griffiths

“Unless we retain a vibrant desire to be free, and unless we understand and practice the principles that give life to essential freedoms, we have little reason to hope they will endure.”

Giving Littles Reason Desire Principles Practice Essentials Endure

Author:Dean L. Larsen

“I meditate. Daily practice is essential to my life.”

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Author:Richard Gere

“Archiving is extremely expensive and time consuming. I'm sure an archivist would tell me I'm doing it wrong. It's an industry that's built upon essential ideas, and some of those practices are abusive.”

Ideas Practice Industry Essentials Built Expensive Consuming Abusive Time Consuming Archivists

Author:Ian MacKaye

“The literal meaning of "yoga" is "union," "integration," "reconnection." But in the context of practice, yoga is a way of gaining access to your own inner luminosity and becoming established in your essential self.”

Way Self Practice Becoming Essentials Yoga Unions Access Integration Literal

Author:Rajmani Tigunait

“It's essential for me to be working on a nonfiction sort of research project simultaneous with multiple projects that are in different realms of art practice or not.”

Art Different Practice Essentials Projects Research Realms Nonfiction Multiple Simultaneous

Author:Jonathon Keats

“Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training...”

Life Art Life Is Practice Essentials Training Trials Preparation True Life

Author:Lewis Mumford

“Through the practices of yoga, we discover that concern for the happiness and well being of others, including animals, must be an essential part of our own quest for happiness and well being. The fork can be a powerful weapon of mass destruction or a tool to create peace on Earth.”

“The critical element in meditation practice is beginning again. Everyone loses focus at times, everyone loses interest at times, and everyone gets distracted over and over again. What is essential, and also incredibly transforming, is realizing that we have the ability to begin again, without blaming or judging ourselves, without thinking we have failed, without losing heart, we can, and need to, constantly be beginning again.”

“When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is eternal and unlimited by birth and death. Once we have experienced this eternal part in us, we can no longer doubt its existence. Meditation is thus the way to knowing and beholding the eternal, indestructible, essential centre of our being.”

Way Spirit Existence Practice Knowing Doubt Meditation Birth Essentials Eternal Experience Raises Centre Unlimited Being Me Indestructible Birth And Death

Book:How to Know Higher Worlds

Source: How to Know Higher Worlds

“How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the science can know.”

Knows Life Art Matter Joy Practice Essentials Garden Add Gardening Joy Of Living

Author:Ernest Henry Wilson

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