Top 30 George B. Leonard Quotes
#1. It's easy to get on the path of mastery. The real challenge lies in staying on it.
George Leonard
#2. you cannot move to a higher level untill you accept fully where you are at
Leonard George
#3. The real juice of life, whether it be sweet or bitter, is to be found not nearly so much in the products of our efforts as in the process of living itself, in how it feels to be alive.
George Leonard
#5. The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.
George Leonard
#6. What if you're practicing wrong? Then you get very good at doing something wrong.
George Leonard
#7. At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silence pulse of perfect rhythm which is absolutely individual and unique, and yet which connects us to everything else.
George Leonard
#8. Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.
George Leonard
#9. Real people are places to me as much as persons: I want to see them, as I want to see the places I am fond of, in all weathers and at all times of the year.
Leonard Alfred George Strong
#10. Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.
George Leonard
#11. How do you best move toward mastery? To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice itself.
George Leonard
#12. Of what is the body made? It is made of emptiness and rhythm. At the ultimate heart of the body, at the heart of the world, there is no solidity. Once again, there is only the dance.
George Leonard
#13. Ultimately, human intentionality is the most powerful evolutionary force on this planet.
George Leonard
#14. If you intend to take the journey of mastery, the best thing you can do is to arrange for first-rate instruction.
George Leonard
#15. The subtle dance of the body joins us to the world.
George Leonard
#16. What we call "mastery" can be defined as that mysterious process through which what is at first difficult or even impossible becomes easy and pleasurable through diligent, patient, long-term practice.
George Leonard
#17. How to begin the journey? You need only to take the first step. When? There is always now.
George Leonard
#18. For the master, surrender means there are no experts. There are only learners.
George Leonard
#19. I'm particularly impressed by the creation of the character of Spock, which really was Leonard Nimoy's singular creation. He used everything he had.
George Takei
#20. The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.
George Leonard
#21. There is a human striving for self-transcendence. It's part of what makes us human. With all of our flaws we want to go a little bit further than we've gone before and maybe even further than anyone else has gone before.
George Leonard
#23. To be a learner, you've got to be willing to be a fool.
George Leonard
#24. The more you move in rhythm with someone, the closer you become with that person.
George Leonard
#25. The best way to describe your total creative capacity is to say that for all practical purposes it is infinite.
George Leonard
#27. Preventing the new generation from changing in any deep way is what most societies require of their educators.
George Leonard
#28. What a miracle it is, this gift of time! Little marks on paper, the children of consciousness, sent down to us through the years.
George Leonard
#29. Our preoccupation with goals, results, and the quick fix has separated us from our own experiences.
George Leonard
#30. To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life.
George Leonard