Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times.
In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.
Doing nothing is very tough to do because you never know when you're finished. The upside is that from the moment you wake up in the morning, you're on the job.
I believe that many professing Christians are cold and uncomfortable because they are doing nothing for their Lord; but if they actively served him, their blood would begin to circulate spiritually, and it would be well with them.
Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it.
The trouble with doing nothing is that you can never take any time off.
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.
the beauty of doing nothing
Doing nothing, badly.
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness...Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through.
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
The sage acts by doing nothing.
In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
Wasting one's youth is better than doing nothing at all with it.
What am I doing? Nothing. I am letting life rain upon me.
There are some who dream their lives away, but end up doing nothing, and others who do their lives away, and end up never dreaming.
Why should old people get [Social Security]? They just sit around all day doing nothing.
The hardest work of all - doing nothing.
Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing.
The teaching of the buddhas is: Find time and a place to remain unoccupied. That's what meditation is all about. Find at least one hour every day to sit silently doing nothing, utterly unoccupied, just watching whatsoever passes by inside. In the beginning you will be very sad, looking at things inside you; you will feel only darkness and nothing else, and ugly things and all kinds of black holes appearing. You will feel agony, no ecstasy at all. But if you persist, persevere, the day comes when all these agonies disappear, and behind the agonies is the ecstasy.
You want to do something for the Lord...do it. Whatever you feel needs to be done, even though youre shaking in your boots, youre scared to death -- take the first step forward. The grace comes with that one step and you get the grace as you step. Being afraid is not a problem; its doing nothing when you feel afraid.
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