People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
If you can’t meditate in a boiler room, you can’t meditate.
Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance.
To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure.
Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
Practice, practice, practice in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practice in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.
Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don’t take your thoughts too seriously.
One conscious breath in and out is a meditation.
So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.
Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.
For it is in giving that we receive.
Practice moderation in all things except love.
You can’t hire someone else to do your push-ups for you.
Do something you hate every day, just for the practice.
Don’t whine, complain, or make excuses.
The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.
Confidence comes from being prepared.
It’s not about the number of hours you practice, it’s about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice.
You always have to be on edge. You always have to take every practice, every game, like it is your last.
Everybody shut up. Let us work.