#practices

Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are slow to take offense, which may make you misjudge the thickness of their skin, and fail to worry about insulting them. But should you offend their honor and their pride, they will overwhelm you with a violence that seems sudden and extreme given their slowness to anger. If you want to turn people down, it is best to do so politely and respectfully, even if you feel their request is impudent or their offer ridiculous. ↗

— Robert Greene

#power #power-of-words #powerful #practices #quotes-i-love

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

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

Everybody wants a happy life and a peaceful mind, but we have to produce peace of mind through our own practice. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#happiness #life #peace #peace-of-mind #practices

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#forever #head #heart #learns #new

We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices. ↗

— Donna Brazile

#country #election #like #our #practices

The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#both #consumer #development #domestic #export

There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#heterosexual #homosexual #impulses #mixture #most

It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#each #every #every time #fact #fighting

However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry. ↗

— Bob Filner

#alone #children #control #dealing #educator