There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
Stanislav Grof
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YOGI BERRA In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.
CHUCK REID In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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MANFRED EIGEN In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.
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JOE HILL The only real equality is in the cemetery
GERMAN PROVERB Do not allow consumerism to dictate your spiritual practice. You need nothing more than your focused...
GARY HOPKINS Practice is a substitute for talent; however, there is no substitute for practice.
REBEKAH CYPHERS I sat up in bed. "What did he say?"
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RICK RIORDAN Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Our goal for the course is to understand that there are differences in professional practice between...
BETH BARNES We kind of know what we can expect, and we have worked on our mental preparation in practice because...
OLGA KLIMOVA To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows...
SOCRATES Autopsy is a dying practice.
UNKNOWN This is what the path of Dharma is like. It's not that you have to do all the practices. It is suffi...
DHOMANG YANGTHANG Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 The early Hebrews learned at the foot of Mou...
SHERWOOD E. WIRT I went to a foot specialist recently and she said:
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JOE LANG New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland are leading hubs for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and med...
SCOTT CHIZZO Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The way anything is developed is through practice practice practice practice practice practice pract...
JOYCE MEYER We practice them, but you can't practice pressure. That's the difference.
IAN RUTLEDGE There is no difference between fundamental research and applied research. Although this is my view, ...
YVES CHAUVIN As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That i...
CHRISTY TURLINGTON There is a fundamental difference between men and women - women need romance, men need intrigue.
SHERRY ARGOV That's the secret. If you always make sure you're exactly the person you hoped to be, if you always ...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
GEORGE CARLIN Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to
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JOHN GREEN Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not
EPICURUS Death cancels everything but truth
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JERRY SEINFELD I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend
ALBERT EINSTEIN More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my...
HARVEY MILK It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
ANDREW YOUNG Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it
ROBERT BENCHLEY For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death
JOHN OXENHAM I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it
VOLTAIRE The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good
JOHN BARRYMORE Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks differe...
SUSAN CHEEVER It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE Death takes the good, too good to stay, And leaves the bad, too bad to take away
HAROLD KUSHNER Death, the one appointment we all must keep, and for which no time is set
CHARLIE CHAN I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams ar...
ROBERT FULGHUM I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in hi...
WILL SHRINER Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening, but no matter how hard d...
NORMAN COUSINS As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
LEONARDO DA VINCI If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not a...
MAHATMA GANDHI Live as you would have wished to live when you are dying
CHRISTIAN FURCHTEGOTT GELLERT I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse ...
JUDY GARLAND That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner
SAMUEL JOHNSON Death's boatman takes no bribe
HORACE We were getting cable TV on his watch.
DENNIS RODMAN I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm ...
GEORGE F. BURNS It's all a waste of time. Everything begins only to end. The moment you were born you began to die. ...
JANNE TELLER In the long run, we're all dead.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES I am about to take my last voyage. A great leap in the dark.
THOMAS HOBBES Fiddlers ... doesn't fit the profile.
ED MCBAIN Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves
LYNN CAINE A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own
THOMAS MANN It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it prope...
UMBERTO ECO Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death
JHONEN VáSQUEZ I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, a...
TERENCE MCKENNA The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.
WILLA CATHER Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they’re 75.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (ATTRIBUTED, NOT FOUND IN ANY MAJOR WORK, FAKE) Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a ...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE The same joy is in a stone which, thrown aloft, hesitates a little at the height of its flight and t...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN I have walked in Death to the very precipice of the Ninth Gate," Abhorsen said quietly. "I know the ...
GARTH NIX We are so afraid of the idea of having to die… that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as...
JOSé SARAMAGO ... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a micro...
DAVID WONG See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that
someone has left this world,...
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BRANDY HEINEMAN I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their m...
HOLLY BLACK I do everything myself except coloring for the covers.
STAN SAKAI I don't need to sink the ball, I just need to do things that got me where I was. At 44, it is diffic...
DENNIS RODMAN The perfect metaphor," he said, "looming up suddenly out of nowhere in the middle of your maiden voy...
CONNIE WILLIS The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acti...
JAMES LIPTON Today was absolutely as good as I can play. And I was scared to death. I played a couple practice ro...
KIX BROOKS The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to m...
WOODY ALLEN A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.
ED MCBAIN Done to death by slanderous tongues
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Death without dread of death is welcome death
SENECA Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
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NEIL SUTTON Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through pract...
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(Preface in Te...
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