Daily Practice Quotes

“Learn to observe your emotions without needing to act or distract yourself from them. Within that stillness your truest most vulnerable thoughts will arise and it is these thoughts that will show you where your healing work must begin.”
― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life

“A Prayer for Daily Insight
Open my eyes, God. Help me to perceive what I have ignored, to uncover what I have forgotten, to find what I have been searching for. Remind me that I don't have to journey far to discover something new, for miracles surround me, blessings and holiness abound. And You are near.
Amen.”
― Naomi Levy, Talking to God: Personal Prayers for Times of Joy, Sadness, Struggle, and Celebration

“Peace never hurries. To rush or force is contradictory to the very essence of peace.”
― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life

“It is often the simple daily practices that influence our lives in dramatic ways.”
― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life

“Mastering our thoughts can only be achieved after we truly understand what reality is. Thus, it is time to shatter your pre-conceived concept of reality. First, the majority of what you perceive as reality exists only in your mind, and, chances are, you spend most hours of your life in this illusion.”
― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life

“Peace, happiness, and love are a daily practice. Give time and energy to that which you want more of in your life. Invest in yourself for a higher quality of life. You're worth it.”
― Akiroq Brost

“Blessings are revealed through gratitude. Practice gratitude daily.”
― Akiroq Brost

“Master Teachers who genuinely embody an enlightened state of being never stop “doing the work”. The ego is what assumes it knows enough, causing cessation of these daily practices, and therefore, Masters without attachment to ego are forever students of the Universe. The Masters attain an illuminated state of “Being” as the outcome, yet it is the consistent “doing” that promotes and maintains their enlightenment.”
― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life

“Happiness is not the achievement of some goal, it's a mindset, it's a way of looking at things, it's a daily practice. Happiness is a way of living.”
― Akiroq Brost

“When we begin a deeper journey into earth care, sometimes we are struck by the breadth of ruin, even ugliness, that it is our challenge to recover and redeem.

While it is very necessary to acknowledge the true problems that call on our creative solutions, a continual focus on the difficulties can damage our own souls over time. Putting into place a daily or weekly practice of 'looking for the lovely thing,' can help sustain us and keep us creative—for, it is in a spirit of gratitude, hope and creativity that we can maintain our energy and continue to craft better and better solutions together.”
― L.L. Barkat, Earth to Poetry: A 30-Days, 30-Poems Earth, Self, and Other Care Challenge

“Set yourself up for success by preparing a sacred space to set the tone for your practice, and it's helpful to establish some level of consistency. For some, that means taking time during their commute to meditate and journal. For others, that means sitting on the back porch early in the morning or meditating for a few minutes on the couch. Still others will have a sacred corner with an altar, including an image of Christ, a few candles, and a place to store your journal.”
― Benjamin W. Decker, Meditations on Christ: A 5-Minute Guided Journal for Christians

“[Tenzin Palmo]: The practice is [snapping her fingers] to wake up and develop clarity and alertness and at the same time love, kindness and consideration. You are kind not just to all sentient beings in the 10 directions as a wish, but practically to the person who is next to you, your wife or husband, your children, colleagues at work, the stranger you meet on the bus, to anybody. You are just aware that these people are suffering as you are suffering. That extra smile, that extra kindness can mean so much to people. This is practice.
It is not how many millions of mantras you say. This is so irrelevant. I feel it is a big mistake when people get the idea that unless they go into long retreats and do millions of different kinds of practices they are not going to get anywhere. True practice on the Bodhisattva path has very little to do with that but an enormous amount to do with the quality of our everyday lives and our relationships.”
― Martine Batchelor, Walking on Lotus Flowers: Buddhist Women Living, Loving and Meditating