"A simple but radical spiritual practice is to accept whatever arises in the Now, within and without."
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"Personally, I don't teach practices as such. The power of the teaching is sufficient without needing to go for any practice."
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"Now if a teacher gives you a practice, he or she would perhaps point out when you don't need it anymore or you realize yourself when you don't need it anymore."
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"To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive."
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"Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice."
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"Indeed, some "revolutionaries" brand as "innocents," "dreamers," or even "reactionaries"; those who would challenge this educational practice. But one does not liberate people by alienating them. Authentic liberation - the process of humanization - is not another deposit to be made in men."
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"Are you experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What's for lunch? Stay! I can't stand this another minute! Stay!"
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"Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand."
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"Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless."
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"You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice."
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"I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice."
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"Yoga has moved from relative anonymity in the West to a well-recognized practice offered in thousands of studios, community centers, hospitals, gyms, and health clubs."
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"Whether you want to say Israel practices apartheid is immaterial. They are doing things, given their history, you think, "Do you remember what happened to you?" Then they clobber you and say, "You are anti-Semitic.""
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"Practice like the Devil."
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"One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice."
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"I didn't want to audition the kids so much; I just wanted to talk to them because I like seeing how they are because their mothers usually mess them up with practice. So, I'd rather talk to them and see how they respond. I just throw things at them and see how they can hit the ball back, and Saniyya Sidney was good."
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"I'm a positive person, so I don't get bogged down with it. If you're expecting that, if you wall in that, if you practice that, then you'll attract what you fear."
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"Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!"
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"There is generally not any conscious thought; it's all instinct, and practice takes over."
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"The Master said, "To study, and then in a timely fashion to practice what you have learned - is this not satisfying? To have companions arrive from afar - is this not a joy? To remain unrecognized by others and yet remain free of resentment - is this not the mark of the gentleman?""
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