“I would encourage you to follow the pathway to enlightenment, to learn to meditate, to practice mindfulness, and not to really care what anybody thinks about you, including yourself.” ThinkingInspirationalCarePracticeBuddhismMindfulnessEnlightenmentIncludingPathways Author:Frederick Lenz
“I believe that God is the source of all the universal, timeless principles. And to Him, I give all the credit and the glory. However, to a person who is not religious, I believe they can live to the highest level of their conscience and develop spiritual intelligence that surpasses most people, including many religious people, who profess but do not practice.” PeopleGivingBelievePersonsSpiritualI BelieveReligiousLevelsPrinciplesPracticeSourceHighestGloryConscienceUniversalIncludingCreditTimelessSpiritual Intelligence Author:Stephen Covey
“Much as being active in the antislavery movement of the last century involved more than not engaging in slavery oneself, so joining in an antiviolence movement has to go beyond opting for nonviolence in one's personal life. It calls for engaging in imaginative and forceful practices of nonviolent resistance to violence, including taking a stand toward entertainment violence.” LastsPracticeViolenceCenturyMovementInvolvedSlaveryIncludingOneselfEntertainmentActiveResistanceNonviolencePersonal LifeEngagingImaginativeJoiningNonviolent ResistanceJoining In Author:Sissela Bok
“Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.” NationsMoralPracticeStandardsIncludingTortureCivilizedCivilized Nations Author:Jerrold Nadler
“In 1962, the Supreme Court banned organized prayer from public schools. Since then, federal, state, and local courts and officials, including public school administrators, have joined in a nationwide search and destroy mission for student religious practices.” StatesSchoolChristianReligiousPrayerPracticeStudentsCourtIncludingMissionsSupremeLocalsOfficialsOrganizedSupreme CourtPublic SchoolBannedAdministratorsReligious Practices Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
“I believe what I practice has to do with something deeper than religion, that it embodies all religions, including Judaism. And Christianity. And Islam.” BelieveI BelieveChristianityPracticeIslamIncludingDeeperJudaismChristianity And Islam Author:Madonna Ciccone
“Education has to be welcomed as a Spiritual Practice for the establishment of Peace in the individual heart as well as in society including the human commonwealth.” HumansWellsHeartSpiritualIndividualPracticeIncludingEducationalEstablishmentCommonwealthSpiritual Practice Author:Sai Baba
“I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually devote to this reading the first hour after I rise every morning. As, including the Apocrypha, it contains about fourteen hundred chapters, and as I meet with occasional interruptions, when this reading is for single days, and sometimes for weeks, or even months, suspended, my rule is to read five chapters every morning, which leaves an allowance of about one-forth of the time for such interruptions.” YearsFirstsMadeSometimesCoursesReadingHoursPracticeMorningFiveWeekMonthsHundredIncludingMade ItChaptersEvery MorningOccasionalFourteenSuspendedInterruptionsAllowance Book:The Russian memoirs of John Quincy Adams: his diary from 1809-1814 Source: The Russian memoirs of John Quincy Adams: his diary from 1809-1814
“The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.” HumansIdeasCountryStatesBodyUniverseUnitedPracticeUnited StatesCenturyIncludingIllnessSpreadHuman BodyAustralianFluidHealerMagnetic18th Century Author:Karen Abbott
“The establishment can't admit [that] it is human rights violations that make ... countries attractive to business - so history has to be fudged, including denial of our support of regimes of terror and the practices that provide favorable climates of investment, and our destabilization of democracies that [don't] meet [the] standard of service to the transnational corporation.” HumansCountryPracticeSupportDemocracyRightsStandardsInvestmentClimateIncludingHuman RightsTerrorDenialCorporationsAttractiveEstablishmentRegimesViolationTransnational Corporations Author:Edward S. Herman
“No one can practice the precepts perfectly, including the Buddha... Boiled vegetables contain dead bacteria. We cannot practice the First Precept or any of the precepts perfectly. But because of the real danger in our society-alcoholism has destroyed so many families and has brought about much unhappiness-we have to do something. We have to live in a way that will eradicate that kind of damage. That is why even if you can be very healthy with one glass of wine every week, I still urge you with all my strength to abandon that glass of wine.” IfsWayFirstsKindStillsRealPracticeWeekDangerHealthyWineIncludingGlassesDestroyedDamageOur SocietyUrgesAbandonUnhappinessVegetablesAlcoholismBacteriaWine Glass Author:Nhat Hanh