Zen is the purest of meditations: just sit silently, doing nothing.
– Osho
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- Plants and Books are silent Friends to Mankind.The former grows silently to let you live.The later grows you silently to ‘live – Sridhar Movva
- I’m a master of speaking silently-”all my life I’ve spoken silently and I’ve lived through entire tragedies in silence. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Doing better is creativity,doing faster is creativity,doing smarter is creativity,doing right is creativity.doing Exclusive is creating identity. – Mohit Manke
- If you want to shine, sit before a lamp; if you want to shine brighter, sit before a fire; but if you want to shine the brightest, sit before a sage. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen. – Bodhidharma
- Doing nothing can be as rewarding as doing something. And doing very little can be as productive, in a creative sense, as doing a lot. – Fennel Hudson
- Zen gives you tremendous dignity. There is no authority anywhere. Freedom is utter and ultimate. – Osho
- Zen is magic. It gives you the key to open the miraculous. And the miraculous is in you and the key is also in you. – Osho
- Doing better is creativity, doing faster is creativity, doing smarter is creativity, doing right is creativity. – Amit Kalantri
- Doing nothing accomplishes nothing, gains nothing, changes nothing, and wins nothing. You have to make a move. – Richelle E Goodrich
- This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations. – Joseph Conrad
- Micro meditations should be performed with very little activity. These practices should not be associated with any goal, concept or belief. – Amit Ray
- Many religions have meditations on death to let it penetrate our thick skulls that life doesn’t last forever. – Pema Chdrn
- Carefully analyze the old stories that you choose to perpetually tell, for these are really life-long meditations. – Bryant McGill
- A selfless act out of even the purest desire to do for others, will be selfish in the satisfaction and happiness it brings to one doing it. – Ashly Lorenzana
- HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it’s so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me. – Chuck Palahniuk
- Reach out to the world. Be open. Help others and in doing so help yourself. – Independent Zen
- To be knowledgeable, sit before scholars; to be wise, sit before life. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- We sit, silent, the comfortable way only good friends can sit. – Alex Flinn
- Governments stand because people sit; if people stand, governments will sit! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Are you going to sit or are you afraid I’ll suck your blood?--œNo, I am not afraid.--œThen come sit next to me.- ~ Trent and Kiara: Scarred – Amanda Leigh
- If we didn’t have shadow we’d just sit around loving the light, likely doing nothing with it. – S Kelley Harrell
- We spent days and weeks doing nothing, calling one another ten times a day to schedule our nothing-doing. – Tina Fey
- realize what you are not doing and dare to do what you are not doing. What distinctive thing are you not doing? – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Meditation is doing what you are doing – whether you are doing formal meditation or child care. – Norman Fischer
- To become a better you, keep doing what you have been doing right and learn to correct what you have been doing wrongly. – Israelmore Ayivor
- Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things. – Elbert Hubbard
- It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing. – Terry Pratchett
- Zen is nothing to get excited about. – Shunryu Suzuki
- God is the name given by theologians to something they know nothing about. There is no God the whole existence is made of the stuff called love. – Osho
- One has to get rid of the self. Once the self is thrown away, nothing is lacking. You start overflowing and blossoms start falling on you. – Osho
- It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them. – Dejan Stojanovic
- She silently thanked God for creating such a beautiful universe where anything was possible even when it seemed impossible. – Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson
- Ocean waves gently rock the boat,As if to the tune of a lullaby.She sits still as the boat silently floatsUnder the infinite blue sky. – Rachel Lewis
- Time passes by, memory staysTorturing silently, rest of our days… Sigh! – Aanchal Negi
- The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong. – Mary Wollstonecraft
- Though people are laughing at the dirt surrounding you, they are missing to see the seeds also planted, growing silently within. – Anthony Liccione
- I smile at you, hinting at the pleasures ahead, and silently point to the zip at the back of my dress-¦ – James Lusarde
- In other words, he was the tree in the forest that silently fell–when no one was around to be crushed. – Kresley Cole