“Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out.” GivingTryingWholePracticeFiguresBuddhismBalanceGiving UpNot Giving UpJust Give Up Author:Frederick Lenz
“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
“Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.” ThinkingLifeWholeLightActionEnergyEmotionPracticeDarknessAwarenessDisciplineEnlightenmentAppropriateRitualMasterySelf MasteryEgomania Book:Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu Source: Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu
“The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this particular theme. In its discussion are reflected the splitting off from each other of religion, morals and science; the divorce of philosophy from science and of both from the arts of conduct. The evils which we suffer in education, in religion, in the materialism of business and the aloofness of "intellectuals" from life, in the whole separation of knowledge and practice -- all testify to the necessity of seeing mind-body as an integral whole.” KnowsMindArtPhilosophyWholeProblemBodySufferingEvilMoralPracticeSeeingParticularHabitDivorceSeparationDiscussionThemeMaterialismAffectedDivisionMind And BodyMind BodySplittingAloofness Author:John Dewey
“Every change in conditions will make necessary some change in the use of resources, in the direction and kind of human activities, in habits and practices. And each change in the actions of those affected in the first instance will require further adjustments that will gradually extend through the whole of society. Every change thus in a sense creates a "problemfor society, even though no single individual perceives it as such; it is gradually "solvedby the establishment of a new overall adjustment.” FirstsHumansKindWholeUseActionIndividualPracticeSocietyConditionsHabitActivityResourcesInstancePerceiveAffectedEstablishmentAdjustmentHuman Activity Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“I have found, through years of practice, that people garden in order to make something grow; to interact with nature; to share, to find sanctuary, to heal, to honor the earth, to leave a mark. Through gardening, we feel whole as we make our personal work of art upon our land.” PeopleFeelsYearsArtWholeEarthOrderFoundGrowsNaturePracticeShareLandHonorEssentialsGardenMarkHealWorks Of ArtGardeningSanctuaryThrough The Years Book:The Inward Garden: Creating a Place of Beauty and Meaning Source: The Inward Garden: Creating a Place of Beauty and Meaning
“Different schools of Zen have evolved, principally the Rinzai and Soto orders. A whole hierarchy has developed for the teaching and practice of Zen. Zen has become, to a certain degree, institutionalized.” DifferentWholeSchoolCertainOrderPracticeTeachingDegreesHierarchyIntroduction Author:Frederick Lenz
“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
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world - all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls.” PeopleWorldSoulMatterWholeOrderLiteraturePracticeExerciseYogaWhole WorldAbsurdIndianDietsStrictMemories Dreams Reflections Author:Carl Jung
“Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to how movies use it to establish the moral strength of a household), the opening night montage of Sunday-night supper in one home after another in Waxahachie, Texas in 1935 - a whole community saying grace made me expect the worst.” PeopleMadeWholeUseHomeNightCommunityMoralPracticeGraceWorstTablesDinnerOpeningSundayTexasHouseholdAversionSupperDinner TableSunday NightOpening NightMoral Strength Author:Pauline Kael
“It is the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism, but one should not suggest that the whole of British industry consists of practices of this kind.” ShouldKindWholeFacesPracticeIndustryCapitalismBritish Author:William Randolph Hearst
“By separating the function of adaptation from the function of maintaining the integrity of individual genes, sex allows much greater diversity while still keeping genes whole. Sex is not only fun, it is good engineering practice.” StillsWholeIndividualFunSexPracticeGreaterIntegrityDiversityFunctionGenesEngineeringAdaptationMaintainingSeparating Author:Seth Lloyd
“Advanced practice is the entrance into the ten thousand states of mind. Most people exist in five or six of these states in their whole lifetime.” PeopleMindStatesWholePracticeFiveThousandTenSixLifetimeWhole LifeConcentrationState Of MindEntrances Author:Frederick Lenz
“Some of the nations of Europe who believe in the one wife system have actually forbidden a plurality of wives by their laws; and the consequences are that the whole country among them is overrun with the most abominable practices: adulteries and unlawful connections through all their villages, towns, cities, and country places to a most fearful extent.” BelieveCountryWholeLawNationsCitiesPracticeWifeConsequenceEuropeConnectionsTownsVillageFearfulForbiddenAdulteryPolygamyUnlawfulCity And Country Author:Orson Pratt