Practice

If we cannot be happy in spite our difficulties,

what good is our spiritual practice?

-Maha Ghosananda

Devote yourself to a practice

that will provide you with a capacity

to remain undisturbed under all circumstances.

-Anandamayi Ma

Truly there is no cause for you to be miserable and unhappy.

You yourself impose limitations on your own true nature of infinite Being,

and then weep that you are but a finite creature.

Then you take up this or that sadhana 

to transcend the non-existent limitations.

But if your sadhana itself assumes the existence of the limitations,

how can it help you to transcend them?

-Ramana Maharshi

If you are having trouble with your enthusiasm for sadhana, just tell yourself:
"I may be dead in seven days".
Let go of all the things that you pretend are important in your daily life
and instead focus on the Self for twenty-four hours a day.
Do it and see what happens.
-Annamalai Swami

The highest spiritual practice in life

is mind management.

-Niranjanananda

We can't call it practice because there's no time in it.
-Eckhart Tolle

You do not need to know many things,

but you definitely need to practice what you know.

-Swami Rama

My life is all practice,
Sacrificed to the precepts,
Guarding the country.
-Saicho

Spiritual practice is an attempt
to reform or transform a non-existent self or subject I.
-Stephen Wolinsky

You should therefore cease from practice based on intellectual understanding,

pursuing words, and following after speech,

and learn the backward step that turns you light inward to illuminate your self.

Body and mind of themselves will drop away,

and your original face will be manifest.

-Dogen

With simplicity and plainness
his original nature still,
who needs to practice
calming of the heart?
-Chia Tao