“The most important part of the practice is for the question to remain alive and for your whole body and mind to become a question. In Zen they say that you have to ask with the pores of your skin and the marrow of your bones. A Zen saying points out: Great questioning, great awakening; little questioning, little awakening; no questioning, no awakening.” MindLittlesImportantWholeBodyAsksPracticeAliveSkinsBonesAwakeningQuestioningMind And BodyMarrow Author:Martine Batchelor
“When you approach spirituality as an adventure of being alive, you start as you would any adventure--with a sense of mystery and not-knowing. Instead of searching for answers that make you feel safe, you set out into the vastness of life and death, with a willingness to continually grow. You open up to the possibility that your ordinary life is an extraordinary adventure, and that your joys and sorrows have meaning. Spiritual practice becomes your rudder, offering direction and insight and discretion as you venture into the unknown.” FeelsSpiritualLife IsJoySpiritualityGrowsAnswersPracticeKnowingAliveMysteryPossibilityAdventureSorrowSafeApproachOrdinaryExtraordinaryInsightLife And DeathWillingnessOfferingNot KnowingVentureDiscretionOrdinary LifeVastnessSpiritual PracticeJoys And SorrowsRudders Book:The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure Source: The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure
“While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice.” WellsSaidPracticeDoubtAliveMovementSeriousIdealsAgreeIdeologyPropositionsComponentsOngoingZionistFragmented Author:Theodore Bikel
“The outer form of Buddhism, of practice, is etiquette - a series of ways to live intelligently that keep you alive, awake and happy, wakeful.” WayFormPracticeAliveBuddhismSeriesBuddhistAwakeEtiquetteWay To Live Author:Frederick Lenz
“Life begins with love, is maintained with love, and ends with love. Right now, while we're alive, is the time to practice and express love. So please take care of your love. Love is capable of reaching so many people.” PeopleEndsCareLove IsPracticeAlivePleaseRight NowCapableTake CareReaching Author:Tsoknyi Rinpoche
“My hands are heavy and most importantly they are very fast. I have been called the fastest white man alive. I don't work submissions and not because I am trying to prove something I'm just frankly not very good at 'em. I am very good at getting away. I've never fought anybody whether it was in practice or competition who could hold me down. Even if I thought I could get a submission I'm not laying underneath a grown man with my legs spread on worldwide T.V. Some guys subscribe to that theory but I am a Republican and we don't do that” IfsMenTryingHas BeensHandsGuyWhitePracticeAliveTheoryRepublicanProveCompetitionVery GoodHeavyLegsSpreadEmsGet AwayWhite ManSubmissionHold MeGrown Man Author:Chael Sonnen
“Let ourselves be seen, deeply seen, vulnerably seen, to love with our whole hearts, even though there's no guarantee... to practice gratitude and joy in those moments of terror, to be this vulnerable means that we’re alive.” PeopleFeelsBelieveHeartMeanEnoughWholeMomentsJoyI BelievePracticeAliveListeningGratitudeGratefulTerrorVulnerableGuaranteesKinderSo GratefulI'm Alive Author:Brené Brown
“When the whole world is writing letters, it's easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep alive the narrating inner life. To be alone in the presence of one's thought is not a value, only a common practice.” ThinkingWorldWritingWholeStoriesValuesEasyHoursCommonPracticeAliveSolitudeQuietLettersWhole WorldThoughtfulLapInner Life Author:Vivian Gornick
“The trick to keeping your meditation practice alive, not simply consistent but wonderful, is you need to bring a certain will or force into every meditation.” NeedsCertainForcePracticeMeditationAliveWonderfulBuddhismTricksConsistentMeditation Practice Author:Frederick Lenz
“Slavish obedience to the clerics, who know how to squeeze every last drop of advantage out of religion, is killing our girls. We must speak-blaspheme, if necessary; be accused of being apostates, if that is what is required. Muslims are taught that Islam put an end to the Arabian practice of burying alive newborn baby girls because they were considered worthless and a burden, but as long as we stay quiet in the face of the abomination of child marriage, we are effectively burying our girls alive today.” IfsKnowsChildrenLongEndsTodayLastsFacesGirlSpeakPracticeKnow HowAliveTaughtBabyQuietAdvantageIslamKillingBurdenObedienceWorthlessAccusedLive For TodayNewbornBaby GirlAbominationBuryingArabianNewborn Baby Author:Mona Eltahawy
“Sometimes you have a flash of insight, but it's not strong enough to survive. Therefore in the practice of Buddhism, samadhi is the power to maintain insight alive in every moment, so that every speech, every word, every act will bear the nature of that insight. It is a question of cleaning. And you clean better if you are surrounded by those who are practicing exactly the same.” IfsSometimesEnoughMomentsStrongPracticeAliveBuddhismBearsSpeechCleanInsightFlashCleaningStrong EnoughSamadhiNot StrongNot Strong Enough Author:Nhat Hanh
“1,000 cows in the U.S. are alive at night and dead in the morning. These cows on the ground are ground into feed, making their fellows not only carnivores but cannibals. Europe after Mad Cows' Disease has banned this practice. The U.S has not yet.” NightPracticeMorningAliveDiseaseEuropeFellowsMadCowsBannedCannibalCarnivoresMad Cow Disease Author:Howard Lyman
“The question before me, now that I am old, is not how to be dead, which I know from enough practice, but how to be alive, as these worn hills still tell, and some paintings of Paul Cezanne, and this mere singing wren, who thinks he's alive forever, this instant, and may be.” ThinkingKnowsMayStillsEnoughPracticeForeverAlivePaintingSingingMereHillsInstantWornLive ForeverWrensCezanne Book:This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems Source: This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems
“Photography is linked with death in many different ways. The most immediate and explicit is the social practice of keeping photographs in memory of loved beings who are no longer alive. But there is another real death which each of us undergoes every day, as each day we draw nearer to our own death. Even when the person photographed is still living, that moment when she or he was has forever vanished.” WayPersonsStillsDifferentRealMomentsSocialMemoriesPracticeForeverAlivePhotographyDrawsPhotographDifferent WaysEach DayThat MomentLinkedExplicit Author:Christian Metz