Gautama Buddha Quotes, Views Quotes, Practice Quotes

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. This is a helpful pointer for our everyday presence-practice. Can you catch yourself angrily defending your point of view or attacking the other person's? There's the ego.

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How does one practice mindfulness? Sit in meditation. Be aware of only your breath.

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Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct; it acknowledges no limits to its projects. Reason itself does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order gradually to progress from one level of insight to another.

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Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.

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All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

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If, in [Federal Housing Administration] application, black folks were excluded from it, then you have to override that by going after those discriminatory practices.

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The values that we share - freedom of speech, freedom of religious practice, freedom for civil society, free and fair elections, all the innovation that's been created through a market-based economy - those things are ultimately going to be the path for us to continue into a better future. I hope that, despite some of the challenges we have, that people appreciate that.

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If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

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Once you have your practice and you have your mechanics, you must be able to go out there and trust your mechanics.

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We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day.

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If you practice in accord with your individual capacity, little by little you will find more pleasure and joy in it. As you gain inner strength, your positive actions will gain in profundity and scope.

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I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion.

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The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.

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Human beings will continue to deceive and overpower one another. Basically, everyone exists in the very nature of suffering, so to abuse or mistreat each other is futile. The foundation of all spiritual practice is love. That you practice this well is my only request.

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The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians.

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Now is the time when your action is practice.

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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other.

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All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

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We become just by the practice of just actions.

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Whatever forms of meditation you practice, the most important point is to apply mindfulness continuously, and make a sustained effort. It is unrealistic to expect results from meditation within a short period of time. What is required is continuous sustained effort.

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