Quotes About Effortlessness

#1. 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 - they look paradoxical - unless you attain to an unmoving dance, you have not attained.

Rajneesh

#2. Everybody wants to fly. At some stage in their lives, everyone looks up in the sky and sees the seemingly effortlessness of a bird in the gulf of air overhead and thinks: I wish, just one time, that could be me.

Charlie Fletcher

#3. When effort is needed, effort will appear. When effortlessness becomes essential, it will assert itself. You need not push life about. Just flow with it and give yourself completely to the task of the present moment ...

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#4. 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 of effortlessness.

Rajneesh

#5. The first thing to be understood: effort is needed, but effort alone is not enough - effort and then effortlessness, effort plus effortlessness. Effort precedes, and then effortlessness follows. Effortlessness is the peak of effort, it comes only when you have reached the peak

Rajneesh

#6. 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. Through effort you can never reach to nirvana - you can reach lo New Delhi, but not to nirvana.

Rajneesh

#7. Effortlessness is the ability to slow down and listen for the spaces between the joints ... Deep within all things there is a natural rhythm, a music of opening and closing, expansion and contraction.

Wayne Muller

#8. With effort, reach to effortlessness. With seeking, reach to a state of no-seeking. With mind, arrive at no-mind.

Rajneesh

#9. It's very comforting to know that you are faced with a difficult job. If someone gives you a job which shows every sign of being easy, then you are a prisoner of effortlessness.

Raymond Aubrac

#10. Effort is the key in the relative; effortlessness is the key to the Absolute.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#11. Actors tend to get better with age. You start cutting away the useless stuff and achieving a point of effortlessness and simplicity, which is all you want to do, with any art at all.

James Purefoy

#12. Effortlessness is the key to success. Don't fight. Don't try hard. Just allow yourself to sit. This relaxing way of sitting is also resting. Allow your body to rest.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#13. The effortlessness of a performance for which great strength is needed is a spectacle of whose aesthetic beauty the East has an exceedingly sensitive and grateful appreciation.

Eugen Herrigel

#14. Effortlessness is an attractive thing. And it takes a lot of effort to achieve it.

Portia De Rossi

#15. The most amazing lesson in aerodynamics I ever had was the day I climbed a thermal in a glider at the same time as an eagle. I witnessed, close up, effortlessness and lightness combined with strength, precision and determination.

Norman Foster

#16. 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 doing, and the effort of effortlessness is the greatest effort.

Rajneesh

#17. From the sea of effortlessness, let your great uncaused compassion shine forth.

Hakuin Ekaku

#18. If you come to a really religious man you will feel a grace around him, effortless. He has not done anything to himself, he has simply relaxed into the ultimate, and you feel the effortlessness around him.

Rajneesh

#19. an attempt at effortlessness is a paradox at the very least.

Ainslie Hogarth

#20. What people never understand is that depression isn't about the outside; it's about the inside.

Jasmine Warga

#21. My battered heart will always be
where the ocean meets the sand, I
will break over and over
Every day. That is the best and
worst part of me.

Clementine Von Radics

#22. Legend has it that Walter was taking a walk with his father one day and passed by a church where Oswald directed his young son's attention to a memorial. "There's a name you will never remember," Oswald commented as he kept walking. Walter paused to read:

Patricia Cornwell

#23. Consecutive reading of biblical books forces everyone who wants to hear to put himself, or to allow himself to be found, where God has acted once and for all for the salvation of men.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#24. Man, he deserves a hero cookie. (Selena)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#25. We have researchers involved with the show [Spartacus] and they pointed me in a pretty great direction, in terms of what to read, and what to look at or look for, and they also provided me with some material.

Dustin Clare

#26. The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.

Albert Einstein

#27. Relax. If you push yourself you won't get far.

Marty Rubin

#28. To disobey God at any instance is to lose all acquired

Sunday Adelaja

#29. You've got on a white coat. (Ephani)
Awesome cognitive powers you have there. (Alexion)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#30. Where no effort is necessary, the least effort spoils things.

Marty Rubin

#31. The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.

Gore Vidal

#32. Ambassador Mulford has made wide-ranging intervention in the internal affairs of India. To say the least, it is very unfortunate. It confirms our earlier apprehension that he is directly interfering in India's internal affairs.

Bill Vaughan

#33. Look out from within and observe the words, actions, reactions, and feelings that evolve from you. Release the identity with what you have observed if it creates tension and stress. Surely you will dissolve into effortless being that way.

Franklin Gillette

#34. Live life like you've got absolutely nothing to lose.

Gaurav Gupta

#35. Our existence has always and everywhere been tragic, but man has converted these numberless tragedies into works of art. I know of nothing more astonishing or more wonderful than this transformation.

Maxim Gorky