1,113 Quotes About Practice

I would not ask you to do this practice, to undertake this path of liberation from the habits of suffering mind, unless it were a feasible path.

The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.

A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body.

Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.

Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.

There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart.

Don't practice until you get it right. Practice until you can't get it wrong...ever.

Once I had an opportunity to talk with Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, about the fact that I was not able to do my practice properly. I had just started the vajrayana practices and I was supposed to be visualizing. I couldn't visualize anything. I tried and tried but there was just nothing at all; I felt like a fraud doing the practice because it didn't feel natural to me. (...). So he encouraged me by saying that as long as you have these kinds of doubts, your practice will be good.

We train in the bodhichitta practices in order to become so open that we can take the pain of the world in, let it touch our hearts, and turn it into compassion.