“The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of success, even in realms like chess. Instead, it's deliberate practice. Top performers spend more hours (many more hours) rigorously practicing their craft.” HoursPracticeDivineKeysGeniusChessFactorsCraftsRealmsAccomplishedPerformersSparksDeliberateSeparatingDeliberate PracticeTop Performers Author:David Brooks
“We look at some people as if they were special, gifted, divine. Nobody is special and gifted and divine. No more than you are, no more than I am. The only difference, the very only one, is that they have begun to understand what they really are and have begun to practice it.” PeopleIfsLooksDifferencesPracticeSpecialDivineGifted Author:Richard Bach
“One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, 'Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!' This should be one's practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.” ShouldHappensAttitudePracticeDivineStrangeAccidentsThings HappenWitnessSchemesStrange ThingsWhatever HappensAdopting Author:Ramana Maharshi
“Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and endless contrarieties, even in subjects of common life and practice.... When these topics are displayed in their full light, as they are by some philosophers and almost all divines; who can retain such confidence in this frail faculty of reason as to pay any regard to its determinations in points so sublime, so abstruse, so remote from common life and experience?” HumansReasonLightCommonPayPracticeSubjectsDivineLimitsWeaknessDeterminationRegardPhilosopherEndlessUncertaintyFacultySensibleSublimeTopicsBlindnessFrailHuman ReasonCommon Life Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)
“Through a particular magical practice it is possible to modify the being that has only one element into a being with four elements and to give it an immortal spirit. But a magicial will seldom intervene without good reason, because he is responsible and must justify his actions before Divine Providence.” GivingReasonActionSpiritPracticeFourMagicDivineParticularElementsResponsibleJustifyImmortalMysticismProvidenceDivine ProvidenceFour Elements Author:Franz Bardon
“This is the Book. I have read the Bible through many times, and now make it a practice to read it through once every year. It is a book of all others for lawyers, as well as divines; and I pity the man who cannot find in it a rich supply of thought and of rules for conduct. It fits man for life--it prepares him for death.” MenYearsWellsBookPracticeRichDivineHe ManFitLawyerPity Author:Daniel Webster
“What is Yoga? Yoga is self-conquest. Self-conquest is God-Realization. He who practices Yoga does two things with one stroke: he simplifies his whole life and he gets a freee access to the Divine.” DoeTwoSelfWholePracticeDivineYogaAccessWhole LifeRealizationTwo ThingsStrokesConquestSimplify Book:Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy Source: Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy
“There are many who say to the Lord, "I give myself wholly to Thee, without any reserve," but there are few who embrace the practice of this abandonment, which consists in receiving with a certain indifference every sort of event, as it happens in conformity with Divine Providence, as well afflictions as consolations, contempt and reproaches as honor and glory.” GivingWellsHappensCertainLordPracticeEventsDivineHonorGloryEmbraceTheeIndifferenceConformityContemptReceivingProvidenceReservesAfflictionConsolationAbandonmentReproachDivine Providence Author:Saint Francis de Sales