“In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity.” WorldWholeSpiritualPurposeHumanityEnergyMy OwnPracticePathJourneyTraditionDevotionWhole WorldMonkFamily LifeSpiritual JourneySpiritual PracticeService To HumanityBhaktiDevotion To God Author:Radhanath Swami
“When I was young, there was never any space for me to get attention of my own that wasn't negative. Art, and the practice of making art, was the only space that was mine alone, where I could be anyone and do anything, where just by using my head and my hands I could cry, or laugh, or get pissed off.” ArtHandsYoungMy OwnSpaceAttentionPracticeLaughingCryMinesNegativePissed Off Author:Kim Gordon
“My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the work I was doing in the civil rights and anti-war movement.” Has BeensWarMy OwnPracticeRightsMovementFieldsBuddhismCivil RightsEngagedAnti WarAnti War Movement Author:Joan Halifax
“To cite my own alma mater, it's shocking to me that Yale University can teach what it teaches at the Yale School of Environmental Studies and utterly fail to mirror those values in any way in its investment practices.” WaySchoolValuesMy OwnTeachPracticeStudyFailingMirrorsInvestmentEnvironmentalUniversityShockingYaleCitingAlma MaterYale University Author:Edward Norton
“One thing I hate about the New Deal is that it is killing what, to me, is the American pioneering spirit. I simply do not know what to tell my own boys, leaving school and confronting this new world whose ideal is Security and whose practice is dependence upon government instead of upon one's self. All the old character-values seem simply insane from a practical point of view; the self-reliant, the independent, the courageous man is penalized from every direction.” KnowsMenWorldSelfCharacterSeemsGovernmentSchoolSpiritValuesHateMy OwnViewsDealsBoysPracticeOne ThingSecurityIdealsI HateIndependentKillingLeavingPoint Of ViewPracticalsInsaneCourageousNew WorldDependenceConfrontingNew DealPioneeringSelf ReliantThings I HateCourageous ManLeaving SchoolPioneering Spirit Author:Rose Wilder Lane
“It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.” PeopleWellsMayProblemSoundMy OwnPracticeMiddleCenturyBasesDecadesPsychologicalChiefsEmptinessSurprisingColleaguesTwentieth CenturyClinicalsPsychiatric Book:Man's Search for Himself Source: Man's Search for Himself
“By practice and conviction formed, With ancient stubbornness ingrained, Although her body clung and swarmed, My own identity remained.” BodyMy OwnPracticeIdentityAncientConvictionStubbornness Book:The collected poems of Yvor Winters Source: The collected poems of Yvor Winters
“I had, in my legal practice, often encountered really shocking examples of the devastating impact of the costs of long-term medical care on meagre incomes. And, just before I was elected, I had my own personal experience in paying very considerable bills for my mother's terminal illness.” LongCareMotherTermMy OwnPracticeExampleCostImpactBillsIllnessMedicalIncomeLong TermShockingPersonal ExperiencesTerminalMedical CareTerminal Illness Author:Judy LaMarsh
“The heart of the path is quite easy. There's no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That's all that I do in my own practice.” LoveNeedsHeartHateEasyMy OwnPracticePathLetting GoLengthLove And HateHeart Love Author:Ajahn Chah
“It's been a hard lesson for me , but contrary quite frankly to what is a common practice in politics, I can tell from my own experience, it is better to stay away from personalities.” I CanHardMy OwnCommonPracticePersonalityLessonsContraryHard Lessons Author:George W. Bush
“I'm steeped in aesthetic theory, so I tend to bring in my own amateurish way of baring a little bit - when, in practice, I'm not thinking about that when I'm working over the keyboard, or musing over musical ideas in my head. But when discussing it, we want to have some new thought about this new music.” ThinkingWayWantLittlesIdeasBitsMy OwnPracticeTheoryLittle BitMusicalAestheticNew ThoughtDiscussingKeyboardsNew MusicMusings Author:John Maus
“I don't want to be looking inside my ego, my stuff, my achievements, my me, me, me, me, I hate that stuff. I just want to be out there eh to the last day of my life ah interested in the world, in causes, in helping other people. Um that doesn't mean that I don't have a spiritual practice, that I don't look at my own soul, that I don't prepare myself for the that transition that death is but I cannot sit in meditation to contemplate my navel for the rest of my life. That would be boring for me.” PeopleWorldWantLooksMeanSoulHelpingWould BeLastsSpiritualHateCausesStuffMy OwnPracticeMeditationEgoAchievementI HateBoringHelping OthersTransitionContemplatingLast DaySpiritual PracticeHelping Other PeopleNavel Author:Isabel Allende
“In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.” WholeNaturalMy OwnPracticeCasesVirtueWhole LifeHabitualRight Conduct Author:Sallust
“I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It was really interesting to think of how different Asian and Western cultures are as a result of the kinds of agricultural practices that our ancestors used for thousands of years. The life of a Chinese peasant in the Middle Ages was so dramatically different from the life of a European peasant - night and day different.” ThinkingWritingYearsKindBookDifferentFeelingsAgeUsedNightCultureChallengesMy OwnInterestingResultsPracticeMiddleTheoryWesternChineseAncestorSurprisingAsianFarmingMiddle AgesRicePeasantsReally InterestingWestern Culture Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“I am sure that there are many Christians who will confess that their experience has been very much like my own-that we had long known the Lord without realizing that meekness and lowliness of heart should be the distinguishing feature of the disciple, as they were of the Master. Such humility is not a thing that will come on its own. It must be made the object of special desire, prayer, faith and practice.” ShouldHeartLongHas BeensMadeChristianDesireRealizingMy OwnPrayerKnownLordPracticeSpecialObjectsHumilityMastersFeaturesDiscipleMeeknessLowliness Author:Andy Murray