“Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.” InspirationalMeanFacesDesireVisionPracticePerfectionDancingDanceObstaclesGenerosityInvitingChoreographersDance Performance Author:Martha Graham
“The cultivation of generosity is the beginning of spiritual awakening. Generosity has tremendous force because it arises from an inner quality of letting go. Being able to let go, to give up, to renounce, and to give generously all spring from the same source, and when we practice generosity ... we open up these qualities within ourselves.” GivingAbleSpiritualForceQualityPracticeSourceLetting GoGiving UpSpringAwakeningAriseGenerositySpiritual AwakeningRenounceCultivationSelf Giving Author:Sharon Salzberg
“If one is experiencing poverty, practice ordinary and extreme generosity - this is the antidote.” IfsPovertyPracticeOrdinaryExtremesGenerosityAntidote Author:Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
“Scientists are entitled to be proud of their accomplishments, and what accomplishments can they call 'theirs' except the things they have done or thought of first? People who criticize scientists for wanting to enjoy the satisfaction of intellectual ownership are confusing possessiveness with pride of possession. Meanness, secretiveness and, sharp practice are as much despised by scientists as by other decent people in the world of ordinary everyday affairs; nor, in my experience, is generosity less common among them, or less highly esteemed.” PeopleWorldFirstsDoneEnjoyCommonPracticePrideProudIntellectualOrdinaryScientistEverydayAffairSatisfactionPossessionGenerosityAccomplishmentDecentCriticizeOwnershipEntitledBe ProudConfusingDespisedMeannessPossessiveness Author:Peter Medawar