See, once you have begun to experience solitude and silence, you discover that you actually have a soul and that there is a God. Then you can begin to practice Sabbath and that will enable you to re-enter community. You can't have community without Sabbath.
Continuous Integration is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently, usually each person integrates at least daily - leading to multiple integrations per day. Each integration is verified by an automated build (including test) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible. Many teams find that this approach leads to significantly reduced integration problems and allows a team to develop cohesive software more rapidly.
If we practice mindfulness, we always have a place to be when we are afraid.
Days are scrolls: write on them only what you want remembered.
The TV said you should ignore bullies and they would stop harassing you. In practice this worked about half the time. The other half, you ended up with two tall boys shadowing you through a trailer park, their fingers taking little nips at your clothes, like dogs.
If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall.
The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
Archiving is extremely expensive and time consuming. I'm sure an archivist would tell me I'm doing it wrong. It's an industry that's built upon essential ideas, and some of those practices are abusive.
I believe that we learn by practice.
Earlier in this century, the Heisenberg Principle established that the very act of observing a natural phenomenon can change what is being observed. Although the initial theory was limited in practice to special cases in subatomic physics, the philosophical implications were and are staggering.
In the assemblies of the enlightened ones there have been many cases of mastering the Way bringing forth the heart of plants and trees; this is what awakening the mind for enlightenment is like. The fifth patriarch of Zen was once a pine-planting wayfarer; Rinzai worked on planting cedars and pines on Mount Obaku. . . . Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
I used to come to practice and go through the motions. I don't do that anymore. I look forward to practices. I even enjoy the windsprints.
When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.
Tell everyone you know: "My happiness depends on me, so you're off the hook. " And then demonstrate it. Be happy, no matter what they're doing. Practice feeling good, no matter what. And before you know it, you will not give anyone else responsibility for the way you feel-and then, you'll love them all. Because the only reason you don't love them, is because you're using them as your excuse to not feel good.
How to avoid cliche at the root of conception? Practice sincerity. If we've come by. . . material honestly, through our own personal experience or imagination, we may rightly claim it as our own. . . . The way to make material your own is to look for it in yourself. . . . It should be a story that only you can tell, as only you can tell it.
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.
We want to stay on the straight and narrow path and serve God, yet we continue a practice that often pulls us in the wrong direction.
Continue this practice no matter what happens or what anyone does to you.