Quotes About Action

If you cannot surrender, take action immediately: Speak up or do something to bring about a change in the situation — or remove yourself from it. Take responsibility for your life.

A similar question in the Zen tradition is this: "If not now, when?

If a course of action is in alignment with what the Universe wants, it will become empowered.

Focus not on the one hundred things that you will or may have to do at some future time but on the one thing that you can do now. This doesn't mean you should not do any planning. It may well be that planning is the one thing you can do now. But make sure you don't start to run "mental movies," project yourself into the future, and so lose the Now. Any action you take may not bear fruit immediately. Until it does — do not resist what is.

We are also learning that action, although necessary, is only a secondary factor in manifesting our external reality. The primary factor in creation is consciousness. No matter how active we are, how much effort we make, our state of consciousness creates our world, and if there is no change on that inner level, no amount of action will make any difference. We would only re-create modified versions of the same world again and again, a world that is an external reflection of the ego.

If you take any action — leaving or changing your situation — drop the negativity first, if at all possible. Action arising out of insight into what is required is more effective than action arising out of negativity.

Nobody can act beyond their level of consciousness.

Problem" means that you are dwelling on a situation mentally without there being a true intention or possibility of taking action now and that you are unconsciously making it part of your sense of self. You become so overwhelmed by your life situation that you lose your sense of life, of Being. Or you are carrying in your mind the insane burden of a hundred things that you will or may have to do in the future instead of focusing your attention on the one thing that you can do now.

In the Bhagavad Gita, one of the oldest and most beautiful spiritual teachings in existence, nonattachment to the fruit of your action is called Karma Yoga. It is described as the path of "consecrated action.

Accept — then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake.

NO TE PREOCUPES POR EL FRUTO DE TUS ACCIONES: mantente atento a la acción misma. El fruto ya vendrá cuando corresponda.

Cuando se queja, se convierte en una víctima. Cuando se explica, está en posesión de su poder. Así que cambie la situación actuando o hablando claro si es necesario o posible; salga de la situación o acéptela. Lo demás es locura.

I am ruined" is a story. It limits you and prevents you from taking effective action. "I have fifty cents left in my bank account" is a fact. Facing facts is always empowering. Be

inner factors such as fear, guilt, or inertia prevented you from taking action, they will dissolve in the light of your conscious presence.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences. No excuses. No negativity. No psychic pollution. Keep your inner space clear.

Love and do what you will," said St. Augustine.

nonattachment to the fruit of your action is called Karma Yoga. It is described as the path of "consecrated action.

change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

When you yield internally, when you surrender, a new dimension of consciousness opens up. If action is possible or necessary, your action will be in alignment with the whole and supported by creative intelligence, the unconditioned consciousness which in a state of inner openness you become one with. Circumstances and people then become helpful, cooperative. Coincidences happen. If no action is possible, you rest in the peace and inner stillness that comes with surrender. You rest in God.

So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Acepte, después actúe. Cualquier cosa que contenga el momento presente, acéptelo como si usted lo hubiera escogido. Trabaje siempre con él, no contra él. Conviértalo en su amigo, en su aliado, no en su enemigo. Esto transformará su vida milagrosamente.

Anything that is done with negative energy will become contaminated by it and in time give rise to more pain, more unhappiness.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it. If