Effort Quotes

4928 Effort quotes by 2949 unique authors

You will have to learn ways of relaxing in the present. Enlightenment is not an effort to achieve something. It is a state of effortlessness.… — Rajneesh
The whole zen attitude is to bring to your notice the fact that there is no effort to be made. The zen attitude is that… — Rajneesh
With effort, reach to effortlessness. With seeking, reach to a state of no-seeking. With mind, arrive at no-mind. — Rajneesh
First you have to do all that you can do, and then you have to learn non-doing. The doing of the non-doing is the greatest… — Rajneesh
The first thing to be understood: effort is needed, but effort alone is not enough - effort and then effortlessness, effort plus effortlessness. Effort precedes,… — Rajneesh
Effortlessness means not doing anything, inactivity - AKARMA. Effort means doing much, activity - KARMA. Both have to be there. Do much, but don`t be… — Rajneesh
If you are going towards the easy, the ego starts dying. And when there is no ego left, you have arrived to your reality -… — Rajneesh
I teach you both effort and effortlessness, because unless you attain to effortless-effort, unless you attain to active passivity, unless you attain to a singing-silence… — Rajneesh
There are things which happen through effort, and there are things which happen only through effortlessness. There are things which will never happen through effort,… — Rajneesh
When Zen masters say `effortlessness` they are referring to the state when your enlightenment is well rooted. Now there is no need of any effort;… — Rajneesh
Effortlessness is a great phenomenon. Once you know it, many millions of things become possible to you. Through effort the market; through effortlessness the God.… — Rajneesh
Whenever it happens it is never late; whenever it happens it is always early. The happening is so great that you cannot claim it for… — Rajneesh
Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it and desiring disappears,… — Rajneesh
My whole effort is to help you to disappear. My whole effort is to help you to be so empty: anatta - non-being. Because if… — Rajneesh
My effort here is to help you to feel that existence is not indifferent towards you. It is deeply concerned about you, it cares for… — Rajneesh
All meditations are nothing but efforts to bring you to the present. When you live in the present moment, with no past hanging around you,… — Rajneesh
Try to find your individuality, your integrity, and make the effort of not compromising. Because the more you compromise, the less you are an individual.… — Rajneesh
One problem with gratitude is that it competes with the sense of pride, self-reliance and accomplishment we have. We want to think what we have… — Michael Josephson
Do what is healing to your spirit and without effort you will bring the world healing in return. — Alan Cohen
Attachment is the food for the mind to continue. Non-attached witnessing is the way to stop it without any effort to stop it. And when… — Rajneesh
I don't have any choice any more. I am in a choiceless awareness. I don't have to be aware. I am simply aware. Now it… — Rajneesh
They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than… — Eric Hoffer
You can only get next to God through the effort of preparation. To experience the uncreated, the state of awareness will have to be held… — Barry Long
The teachings of many faiths share much in common. And people of many faiths are united in our commitments to love our families, to protect… — George W. Bush
Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose it need superhuman… — Maurice Maeterlinck

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