#practic

Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind. (39) ↗

— Ravi Ravindra

#mind #mindfulness #practice #yoga #yoga

What kind of a world do we live in that has room for dog yoga but not for Esperanto! ↗

— Arika Okrent

#esperanto #injustice #yoga-practice #yoga

Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in hours of highly repetitive and structured practice--perfecting their shooting, dribbling, and passing and running plays over and over again--and agrees to play a carefully defined role on the court. . . . spontaneity isn't random. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#practice #spontaneity #thin-slicing #random

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#any #become #man #nature #necessary

It's not about worthiness, it's about willingness. ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#willingness-to-believe #willingness-to-practice #worthiness #r-alan-woods

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. ↗

— Mark Twain

#changes #christian #contents #medical #practice

I'd go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didn't have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to people's standards. ↗

— Amanda Beard

#anybody #because #escape #face #felt

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#anything #assert #be different #commonplace #creatures

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open. ↗

— John Berger

#confines #difficulty #dog #dreams #great

In the Bhagavad Gita, there is no long discussion, nothing elaborate. The main reason for this is that everything stated in the Gita is meant to be tested in the life of every man; it is intended to be verified in practice. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#elaborate #every #every man #everything #intended