“People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.” PeoplePracticeImagineFoolEmptinessLiarsThoughtlessness Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there's a window, you must imagine your body falling out the window. If there's a knife, you must imagine the knife piercing your skin. If there's a train coming, you must imagine your torso flattened under its wheels. These exercises are necessary to achieving the proper distance.” IfsWayImportantBodyFallProcessPracticeImagineAchieveDyingWindowSkinsDistanceTrainYour BodyOne WayWheelsEmptinessKnivesDetachmentNumbnessPiercingsTorsoGirl InterruptedImagining Yourself Author:Susanna Kaysen
“A common obstruction to a vital intimate relationship is what I call the assumption of clairvoyance. You imagine, perhaps unconsciously, that your partner or friend is somehow magically psychic when it comes to you -\-\ so much so that he or she should unfailingly intuit exactly what you need, even if you don't ask for it. This fantasy may seem romantic, but it can undermine the most promising alliances. To counteract any tendencies you might have to indulge in the assumption of clairvoyance, practice stating your desires aloud.” IfsNeedsShouldMaySeemsMightDesireAsksCommonPracticeFantasyImaginePartnersTendenciesIntimateAssumptionPsychicsIndulgeAlliancesIndulge InObstructionIntimate RelationshipsClairvoyance Author:Rob Brezsny
“[I] can't actually imagine a time in which the need for more diversity would ever cease. Affirmative action has been an issue since segregation practices. The question is not when does it end, but when does it begin [..] When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they are entitled?” PeopleNeedsDoeHas BeensI CanEndsActionPracticeIssuesImagineColorBenefitsDiversityCeaseEntitledSegregationAffirmative ActionAffirmative Author:Eric Holder
“Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.” ForcePracticeImagineHatredAmendmentsProcrastinationImpatienceAdornment Book:Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations Source: Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations
“The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom.” WayMindHeartRealityFacesMovingOpportunityFreedomEducationPracticeImagineFieldsPossibilityDemandLaborRemainsBoundariesLimitationOpennessClassroomLocationHeart And MindComrade Author:Bell Hooks
“It was hard to become an astronaut. Not anywhere near as much physical training as people imagine, but a lot of mental training, a lot of learning. You have to learn everything there is to know about the Space Shuttle and everything you are going to be doing, and everything you need to know if something goes wrong, and then once you have learned it all, you have to practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice until everything is second nature, so it's a very, very difficult training, and it takes years.” PeopleIfsKnowsNeedsYearsHardDifficultSpacePracticeImagineTrainingAstronautSpace ShuttlePhysical Training Author:Sally Ride
“The best time to practice mental rehearsal is at night in bed, just before you fall asleep. The last thing you do before you doze off is to imagine yourself performing at your best the following day. You will be amazed at how often the upcoming event or experience happens exactly as you imagined it.” HappensLastsNightFallPracticeImagineEventsBedFollowingPerformingAmazedRehearsalBest Times Author:Brian Tracy
“Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look out at the stars. This practice should answer the question..... The master settles her mind as the universe settles the stars in the sky. By connecting her mind with the subtle origin, she calms it. Once calmed, it naturally expands, and ultimately her mind becomes as vast and immeasurable as the night sky.” ShouldMindLooksNightUniverseStarsAnswersPracticeImagineSkyMastersCalmDesertSettlingSubtleConnectingNight SkyStars In The Sky Author:Laozi
“Sometimes I imagine that there's a binary division going on in contemporary practice that has to do with chromatic versus diatonic. I notice that I tend to listen in a diatonic sense, that I register a pitch as a member of a diatonic scale, even in a non-tonal context.” SometimesPracticeImagineMembersScalesContemporaryDivisionImagine ThatVersusRegisterBinary Author:Paul Lansky
“A lot of people at my school could play the "Stairway to Heaven" guitar solo, but they couldn't play three chords of a Ramones song if their life depended on it because they didn't have the strength or ability to do it. But all I did was practice that, and the style that I eventually fell into is more focused than people would actually imagine.” PeopleIfsPlaySchoolSongThreeHeavenAbilityPracticeImagineStyleGuitarFocusedSoloChordsRamonesStairwaysGuitar SolosStairway To Heaven Author:Kevin Shields