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Effort Quotes by Rajneesh
- Life is a mystery; that means it cannot be solved. And when all efforts to solve it prove futile, the mystery dawns upon you. Then…
- Choose one meditation and then put all your effort in it. That effort has to be very regular because will is created only out of…
- Remember the word bodhichitta, because Atisha says the whole effort of religion, the whole science of religion, is nothing but an endeavor to create bodhichitta,…
- The relaxation should not be a method. You should not relax through a Yoga posture. This very understanding is relaxing, this very understanding is relaxation.…
- Remember, don't start trying to relax; that is the most absurd thing in the world. And there are many stupid people writing books about relaxation.…
- Ambition is violence, the very effort to succeed in the world is violent.
- So meditation is not really mind-effort. Real meditation is not effort at all. Real meditation is just allowing the mind to have its own way,…
- To live moment to moment is the life of meditation. Then life becomes spontaneous without any effort; then nobody can make you miserable, nobody can…
- Drop dreaming and you are there where you have really been always, but you were never aware. All meditation techniques are just antidream efforts, just…
- Meditation is not your doing. You simply make the effort, but it is not your doing. Your effort is needed to prepare the ground. As…
- 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.…
- 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…
- With effort, reach to effortlessness. With seeking, reach to a state of no-seeking. With mind, arrive at no-mind.
- 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…
- The first thing to be understood: effort is needed, but effort alone is not enough - effort and then effortlessness, effort plus effortlessness. Effort precedes,…
- Effortlessness means not doing anything, inactivity - AKARMA. Effort means doing much, activity - KARMA. Both have to be there. Do much, but don`t be…
- If you are going towards the easy, the ego starts dying. And when there is no ego left, you have arrived to your reality -…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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;…
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
More Effort Quotes
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- Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform.… — Julian Assange
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort,… — Charles Babbage
- I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last… — Peter Ackroyd
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. — Mikhail Bakunin
- Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort… — James A. Baldwin
- To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present… — James A. Baldwin
- Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what… — Johnny Ball
- The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. — Roger Bannister