#practice

Boxing’s not that straightforward,” said Eldric. “You can practice and practice, but the real experience will always be different. Lots of things are like that, actually. ↗

— Franny Billingsley

#experiences #practice #experience

To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into a sacred context is often mistakenly misconstrued as the ordinary pursuit of sex for recreation. ↗

— Zeena Schreck

#initiation #materialism-versus-spiritualism #sexuality #shamanism #tantra

You don't learn knife skills at cooking school, because they give you only six onions and no matter how hard you focus on those six onions there are only six, and you're not going to learn as much as when you cut up a hundred. ↗

— Bill Buford

#experience #practice #experience

Observation and expansion are two elements of meditation. While a teacher may guide you to have the right posture and give instruction on following the breath, no one can teach you about the experience. It comes through practice and patience. ↗

— Debra Moffitt

#guru #meditation #patience #practice #spiritual-experience

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#contribution #healing #important #important contribution #most

The practice of forgiveness is very much like the practice of meditation. You have to do it often and persist at it in order to be any good. ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#meditation #persistence #practice #forgiveness

No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know. ↗

— Emma Anderson

#degree #draw #history #i #know

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#cast #compass #knows #like #loves

Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#analytical #beautiful #design #evidence #practice

I've been in love with you since the very beginning. You asked why there isn't anyone else in my life, and the reason... is you" - J.D. ↗

— Julie James

#practice-makes-perfect #romance #life