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When I need to relax, I love to go to the movies or watch a good TV series. I also practice a lot of sport, mostly tennis and swimming.
Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature of life.
Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals.
All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.
In medical practice, there are few surgical procedures given so little attention and so underrated in its potential hazard as abortion.
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things.
To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant
I don't believe there is such a thing as 'moderate Islam.' I think it's better to talk about degrees of belief and degrees of practice.
We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.
The Muslim world suffers from internal divisions, antidemocratic practices, and the violation of fundamental human rights and freedoms.
The player who expects a lesson to 'take' without subsequent practice just isn't being honest with himself or fair to his professional.
In the last five years I used to go to Zen practice once a month, but since I assumed the post of prime minister it's been much harder.
You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
Awareness of death is the very bedrock of the entire path. Until you have developed this awareness, all other practices are obstructed.
That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.
Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.
Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.
We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place.
Most cats feel that bird-catching is their duty; the instinct goes back to prehistoric times. Amber keeps in practice by chasing moths.
A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent.
The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.
In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.
I love being able to come in every single day and work out and watch film and practice with guys who are all striving for the same goal.
Don't read the sutras - practice meditation. Don't take up the broom - practice meditation. Don't plant tea seeds - practice meditation.
The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.
No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.
To practice kata is not to memorize an order. Find the katas that work for you, understand them, digest them & stick with them for life.
Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.
Critical to any practice of sacred psychology is training in multiple imageries to facilitate the inner realism of journeys of the soul.
Patience takes courage. It is not an ideal state of calm. In fact, when we practice patience we will see our agitation far more clearly.
Inviting a foreign head of state to address the Congress is a clear breach of protocol and practice, and undermines the U.S. presidency.
The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians.
If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.
Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.
It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind.
There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.
Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.
You know, if ever there was a people who should know how to practice brotherhood, it is the American Negro and it is the people of Egypt.
When you know what God says, what He means, and how to put His truths into practice, you will be equipped for every circumstance of life.
The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.
With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique.
Teaching is really a natural extension of one's practice--one wants to share something that's so influential and beautiful in one's life.
Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other.
Only years of practice will teach you the mysteries and bold certainty of a real gardener, who treads at random, yet tramples on nothing.
I'm in training to become a midwife. I'm almost there and before I know it I'll be able to open my own practice, if that's what I desire.