“Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life.”

— Shunryu Suzuki , book Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Pt. 1 : Right Practice "The Marrow of Zen", p. 29
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (1973)

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Japanese Buddhist missionary 1904–1971

Haidakhan Babaji teacher in northern India

Humanity
Source: The Teachings of Babaji, 29 October 1983.

“Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.”

Dogen (1200–1253) Japanese Zen buddhist teacher

II, 22
Shobogenzo Zuimonki (1238)

“But just to work, just to live in this world with this understanding is the most important point, and that is our practice. That is true zazen.”

Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971) Japanese Buddhist missionary

Lecture in Los Altos, CA (1 September 1967)
Context: So it is not a matter of whether it is possible to attain Buddhahood, or if it is possible to make a tile a jewel. But just to work, just to live in this world with this understanding is the most important point, and that is our practice. That is true zazen.

“The way anything is developed is through practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice and more practice.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

“People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age, an age that is anything but practical but believes itself to be more practical than any other age.”

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer

Quoted in: Ingo F. Walther (1996), Picasso, p. 67.
Attributed from posthumous publications

“To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings.”

Meher Baba (1894–1969) Indian mystic

"How to Love God" (12 September 1954) http://www.avatarmeherbaba.org/erics/lovegod.html 
General sources
Context: When a person tells others “Be good”, he conveys to his hearers the feeling that he is good and they are not. When he says “Be brave, honest and pure”, he conveys to his hearers the feeling that the speaker himself is all that, while they are cowards, dishonest and unclean.
To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings. If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear ones, we love God.
If, instead of seeing faults in others we look within ourselves we are loving God.

“Whenever I have to speak on the subject of moral instruction and the conduct of a holy life, it is my practice first to demonstrate the power and quality of human nature.”

Pelagius (360–420) British monk

Letter to Demetrias

“There is no permanent canon of forms of normative argument. Our ways of arguing about ideals are, like our other practices, the mutable products of a specific history and the expressions of our ideas about society and thought.”

Roberto Mangabeira Unger (1947) Brazilian philosopher and politician

Source: False Necessityː Anti-Necessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy (1987), p. 361

“The way to success is only three things; practice, practice and practice.”

Reza Goodary (1988) Mixed martial artist

Source: Unfortunately, this perspective often causes us to become overwhelmed when it's time to start a project. It is not right to step on the heads of others to elevate yourself. Living in exile has its difficulties enough. So let us be proud with one heart, together and under the flag of our beloved country. https://www.ilna.news/fa/tiny/news-1126280 ILNA News, (September 4, 2021)

“Each of us is leading a difficult life, and when we meet people we are seeing only a tiny part of the thinnest veneer of their complex, troubled existences. To practice anything other than kindness towards them, to treat them in any way save generously, is to quietly deny their humanity.”

Derren Brown (1971) British illusionist

Books, Confessions of a Conjuror (2010)

“Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life.”

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