Doers Quotes - Page 5

• Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no concept of a doer of that action.

  Brad Warner

  Real, Rewards, Action

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• Prayer within breath is silence, love within infinity is silence, Wisdom without word is silence, compassion without aim is silence, action without doer is silence, smiling with all existence is silence

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Prayer, Compassion, Silence

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (2014). “Celebrating Silence”, p.11, Arktos

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• To a large extent the evil-doers have succeeded in producing at the output end of their machine a kind of black man who is man only in form. This is the extent to which the process of dehumanization has advanced.

  Steven Biko

  Men, Evil, Black

  "I Write What I Like (We Blacks)". Book by Steven Biko, 1978.

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• By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say that evolution is a natural process, history a human one.... Insofar as we treat man as a part of nature--for instance in a biological survey of evolution--we are precisely not treating him as a historical being. As a historically developing being, he is set over against nature, both as a knower and as a doer.

  Owen Barfield

  Men, Historical, Would Be

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• There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Ill

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.144, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.

  Albert Ellis

  Law, Healthy, Guilt

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• The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fiction, Deeds

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.45, Vintage

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• The real master is only a presence. He has no intentions of being a master. His presence is his teaching. His love is his message. Every gesture of his hand is pointing to the moon. And this whole thing is not being done, it is a happening. The master is not a doer. He has learned the greatest secret of life: let-go. The master has drowned his ego and the idea of separation from existence itself.

  Rajneesh

  Letting Go, Real, Teaching

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• Surrender is not something that you can do. If you do it, it is not surrender, because the doer is there. Surrender is a great understanding that, "I am not." Surrender is an insight that the ego exists not, that, "I am not separate." Surrender is not an act but an understanding.

  Rajneesh

  Understanding, Ego, Surrender

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• But when you think you're supposed to do something with it and imagine that you're the doer, that's pure delusion. Just follow your passion. Do what you love. Inquire, and have a happy life while you're doing it.

  Byron Katie

  Passion, Happy Life, Thinking

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.140, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Effortlessness means not doing anything, inactivity - AKARMA. Effort means doing much, activity - KARMA. Both have to be there. Do much, but don`t be a doer - then you achieve both. Move in the world, but don`t be a part of it. Live in the world, but don`t let the world live in you. Then the contradiction has been absorbed. Then you are not rejecting anything, not denying anything. Then the whole God has been accepted.

  Rajneesh

  Karma, Moving, Mean

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• Service rendered as a gift or love-offering to Life: work that is engaged in, not for self or for profit, but as an act of love and service, these bring the doer a harvest of blessings. . . . When we serve and when we give, we open ourselves to receive life's richest blessings, its greatest prizes, and its most enduring lessons.

  Henry Thomas Hamblin

  Blessing, Helping Others, Offering

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• Once we see an aspect of what we or someone else does as something that happens, we lose our grip on the idea that it has been done and that we can judge the doer and not just the happening.

  Thomas Nagel

  Ideas, Judging, Psychology

  Thomas Nagel (1991). “Mortal Questions : Canto”, p.38, Cambridge University Press

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• Atheists would teach men to be moral now, not because God offers as an inducement reward by and by, but because in the virtuous act itself immediate good is insured to the doer and the circle surrounding him.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Atheist, Men, Circles

  Charles Bradlaugh (1875). “A Few Words About the Devil: And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays”, p.227, Library of Alexandria

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• There is a presence, a silence, a stillness which is here by itself. There is no doer of it, no creator of this stillness. It is simply here in you, with you. It is the fragrance of your own self. There is nothing to do about this, it is naturally present. This fragrance of peace, this spaciousness, it is the fragrance of your own being.

  Mooji

  Self, Silence, Fragrance

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• If the 'I am the doer' idea goes, then only I Am remains and that 'I Am' has no religion.

  Mooji

  Ideas, Remains, Ifs

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• Now it's virtually impossible to write a game that successfully provides challenge and frustration, and that's a shame. We are going to lose something that makes scientists, that makes doers, that makes hard-minded, witty, clever people, and I worry that those people aren't being made these days.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Witty, Clever, Writing

  "Best-Selling Author Warns ‘You Might Not Want to Buy’ His Book". www.wired.com. October 25, 2014.

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• The kingdom of God does not consist in talk, but in power, that is, in works and practice. God loves the 'doers of the word' in faith and love, and not the 'mere hearers,' who, like parrots, have learned to utter certain expressions with readiness.

  Martin Luther

  Expression, Practice, And Love

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• If January is the month of change, February is the month of lasting change. January is for dreamers... February is for doers -

  Marc Parent

  Lasting Change, Dreamer, Months

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• I do not suffer; I cannot suffer because I am not an object. Of course there is suffering. But do you realize what this suffering is? I am the suffering. Whatever is manifested, I am the functioning. Whatever is perceptible I am the perceiving of it. Whatever is done I am the doing of it; I am the doer of it, and, understand this, I am also that which is done. In fact, I am the total functioning.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Suffering, Done, Facts

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• When you are not the doer how can the attachment happen? You do a small thing and you become attached. You say, "I have done this." You would like everybody to know that you have done this and you have done that. This ego is the barrier for the supreme understanding. Drop the doer and let things happen. That's what Tilopa means by being loose and natural.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Attachment, Ego

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• It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Work, Privilege

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.364

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• Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer.

  John Barth

  Simple, Soul, Deeds

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• Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factualness to it. And then certain resonances happen out of how you apply yourself physically.

  Willem Dafoe

  Dancer, Actors, Sometimes

  "Willem Dafoe: 'You do your best work when you're scared" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2012.

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• The way to liberation lies through this realization of the Self, by God-communion and by remaining in this God-aware state of the soul while performing dutiful actions. Any individual can reach this supreme actionless state by the renunciation of all fruits of actions: performing all dutiful acts without harbouring in his heart any likes and dislikes, possessing no material desires, and feeling God, not the ego, as the Doer of all actions.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Lying, Heart, Likes And Dislikes

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2007). “God Talks With Arjuna”, p.1070, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

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