Zen Like State Quotes

#1. I used to try to hypnotize myself into a Zen-like state of resignation at the outset. It doesn't work, not for this grasshopper. I have my own process, as they say. I call it the motherfucker process.

Matthew B. Crawford

#2. When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither is desirable. Without emotion, much social interaction loses its meaning or changes for the worse.

Julian Baggini

#3. When I'm not actually doing my work, I'm planning it or thinking about it or reading things that on some level are transformed into performance fantasies. I have no active interests. I never go anywhere or do anything that transports me outside the boundaries of my mind.

George Carlin

#4. We mortal millions live alone.

Matthew Arnold

#5. Building a strong team is both possible and remarkably simple. But is painfully difficult.

Patrick Lencioni

#6. I may be uninspiring, but I'll be damned if I'm alien.

George V

#7. What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind ... The mind is raw, full of energy, alive and hungry. It does not think in the way we were brought up to think-well-mannered, congenial.

Natalie Goldberg

#8. One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that is Zen. You cannot do it every morning for a few minutes or for half an hour and then forget all about it. It has to become like your heartbeat. You have to sit in it, you have to walk in it. Yes, you have even to sleep in it.

Rajneesh

#9. The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#10. Rule No. 12: shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.

Michael Pollan

#11. A shaft of sweetness shoots through me from top to toe when the sun rises; I shoulder my gun in silent exaltation.

Knut Hamsun

#12. Sam Keen points out that Zen masters spend years to reach an enlightenment that every natural child already knows - the total incarnation of sleeping when you're tired and eating when you're hungry. What irony that this state of Zen-like bliss is programmatically and systematically destroyed.

John Bradshaw

#13. Laying a hand on his heart, she timed its beats to her own. And knew the truest magic was there.

Nora Roberts

#14. I think Sacajawea was caught in a series of tragic situations - her kidnapping as a child, her being passed from tribe to tribe, being sold into marriage. However, I never thought of her as a tragic figure. I do not think she was a victim in the way we think of tragic figures.

Kathryn Lasky

#15. Two years ago today my father was crushed under the wall he was building, and I became an orphan.

Isaac Marion

#16. I've been wearing Chinese clothes since I was 14. I can't wear a suit. I'm small, and when I put on a suit, it's not possible.

Azzedine Alaia