Quotes About Activity

Zen activity is activity which is completely burned out, with nothing remaining but ashes. This is the goal of our practice. That is what Dogen meant when he said, "Ashes do not come back to firewood.

Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only enlightened activity.

When we do something with a quite simple, clear mind, we have no notion or shadows, and our activity is strong and straightforward. But when we do something with a complicated mind, in relation to other things or people, or society, our activity becomes very complex.

When you do something, if you fix your mind on the activity with some confidence, the quality of your state of mind is the activity itself. When you are concentrated on the quality of your being, you are prepared to the activity.

Ohne Bewegung wird der Mensch zu einem unansehnlichen Bündel grauen Fleisches, denn keiner hat die Fähigkeit, sich durch seinen Verstand lebendig zu halten.

As regards being dead, however, one of my main consolations has always been that I have the strongest intention of being an extremely active ghost. Let nobody make any mistake about that.

The less you think and the more you do, the better things tend to become.

Motion however will not help unless we have things moving.

I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play.

The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.

It had always seemed to Louis that a fundamental desire to take postal courses was being sublimated by other people into sexual activity.

I also love horseback riding in New Jersey.

In this world people love to talk and be active. Everyone wants to express their opinion. Listen in meditation, not to your thoughts but to your feelings.

I just love it when I hear a little commotion, someone leaving. When I see those doors in the back . . .

You are right that I don't have a lot of spare time because I love to stay busy and keep my calendar full.

I love doing Pilates and dance. It's fun to mix things up and change your program every ten days.

No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love

So, I took lessons, and I love to shoot now. It's a lot of fun.

I love to watch movies and play cricket.

When you learn to love your physical body, every activity can become a ritual of gratitude where you fully express the joy to be alive!

I love exercise but I find it boring doing the same thing all the time, so I fluctuate between going to the gym, doing Pilates and taking dance lessons.

When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn't know what to do with me! They put me in a Tots class and I just fell in love with it.

Group friendships are products of the right time—the chemistry of season, activity, emotion, and random occurrence.

Susan Marks was in her midseventies, and despite a little stiffness as she stood, she had the look of someone who did an hour of yoga a day to warm up for the second hour of yoga she did each day.