"Proper effort is not the effort to make……" — Ajahn Chah
"Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation."
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82 Quotes by Ajahn Chah
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There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there…
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The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can't see with the eye or hear with…
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When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.
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Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration…
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Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe... Why…
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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to…
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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These days people don't search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a…
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Mindfulness is life. Whenever we don’t have mindfulness, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in…
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Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or…
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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