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  • What is the relationship between spirituality and ethical practice? Since love and compassion and similar qualities all, by definition, presume some level of concern for others' well-being, they presume ethical restraint. We cannot be loving and compassionate unless at the same time we curb our own harmful impulses and desires.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Compassion Quotes , Practice Quotes
  • To practice virtue is to selflessly offer assistance to others, giving without limitation one's time, abilities, and possessions in service, whenever and wherever needed, without prejudice concerning the identity of those in need.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Laozi Quotes , Time Quotes , Practice Quotes
  • To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking badly about people and in ways that will produce friction and unrest in their lives, we should practice a purer perception of them, and when we speak of others, speak of their good qualities.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Practice Quotes , People Quotes
  • Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Practice Quotes , Breathing Quotes
  • We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Dream Quotes , Practice Quotes
  • Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To depart upon any occasion from those rules, is consequence of some flattering speculation of extraordinary gain, is almost always extremely dangerous, and frequently fatal to the banking company which attempts it.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Practice Quotes , Principles Quotes