Just as there’s usually a space or interval between people passing on the street, even if it sometimes seems very small, a space also exists between thoughts. In your meditation, see if you can perceive this gap between thoughts. What is it, and does it belong to the realm of time? If it does not, then it’s unborn and undying, beyond all conditioning, which is a psychological carry-over from the past to the present.
Whatever thoughts or internal conflicts come up—do nothing. Do not try to force them to cease or change. And don’t “do nothing” to still the mind, quiet fears, or resolve conflicts—all of this is doing something. It only leads to more struggling and prevents you from seeing the actual nature of thought and internal conflict. Genuine attention has no motive.
This observation or listening doesn’t involve effort. Effort merely distracts you from what’s taking place in the instant. A kind of concentration exists that’s not forced. We’ve all experienced listening or paying attention to something we truly enjoyed. At that moment, was effort required for concentration to take place?
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You know, I know I should be just as panicky as you about the filthy work - one wants to do nothing in the evenings, certainly not spread rotten books around
Philip LarkinThe less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
Bruce LeeTags: effort
Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.
Chuck PalahniukTags: death heroes effort name
It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens. That's how change occurs.
Jillian MichaelsTags: motivational inspirational inspiration change motivation effort
...when people already know they're deficient, they have nothing to lose by trying.
Carol S. DweckTags: effort
If one's intellectual equipment was not great, one's spiritual experience not deep, the result of doing one's very best could only seem very lightweight in comparison with the effort involved. But perhaps that was not important. The mysterious power that commanded men appeared to him to ask of them only obedience and the maximum of effort and to remain curiously indifferent as to the results.
Elizabeth GoudgeThe good life doesn't knock on the door.
Joy is a job.
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May our effort, confidence and concern for others be the altar from which we pray for personal abundance.
Laura Teresa MarquezTags: confidence prayer effort concern abundance altar personal-abundance
No one ever drowned in sweat.
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