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Don't Just Do Something, Sit There
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First published January 1, 1980
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December 30, 2022
My fav quotes (not a review):
-Page 40 |"One can go on postponing. And life is very short; it is really short – seventy, eighty years. Out of seventy years one third is lost in sleep. Another one third is spent in just putting body and soul together – work, bread and butter. Another one third is spent in small trivia – driving from the house to the office, from the office to the house, saving, cleaning, taking a bath, eating...."
-Page 50 |"Fear is a good policy but very bad for growth. Anger is not a very good policy but is very good for growth."
-Page 50 |"Anger is not the end, but it is better than fear because something moves out. You have so much anger hidden in the stomach that it is enough to kill many people. Fear is a kind of spiritual paralysis, but remember, society will appreciate you very much; you are a good man, a nice man. All afraid people are nice. They are always polite; they always follow the etiquette."
-Page 70 |"If you are feeling two oppositions simultaneously – for example, in a moment you are feeling that one part wants to dance, another part doesn’t want to dance – then just stand between the two and watch."
-Page 119 "There is a famous chinese saying – that wherever you find one slave there will always be two. And that has great wisdom in it... because a slave cannot be alone. The person to whom he has become a slave has also become a slave to him; it is a mutual understanding. The master, the so-called master, also becomes a slave of his own slave."
-Page 126 "Prayer is far easier for women than meditation. Meditation is more male. Prayer is more female. It is just unnatural to a woman’s being to think that something without love can be fulfilling. Love has to be there as an essential part of anything that can be fulfilling. Even meditation has to have some love in it. Meditation plus love is prayer"
-Page 198 "Stress is natural when you are looking for some result,"
-Page 40 |"One can go on postponing. And life is very short; it is really short – seventy, eighty years. Out of seventy years one third is lost in sleep. Another one third is spent in just putting body and soul together – work, bread and butter. Another one third is spent in small trivia – driving from the house to the office, from the office to the house, saving, cleaning, taking a bath, eating...."
-Page 50 |"Fear is a good policy but very bad for growth. Anger is not a very good policy but is very good for growth."
-Page 50 |"Anger is not the end, but it is better than fear because something moves out. You have so much anger hidden in the stomach that it is enough to kill many people. Fear is a kind of spiritual paralysis, but remember, society will appreciate you very much; you are a good man, a nice man. All afraid people are nice. They are always polite; they always follow the etiquette."
-Page 70 |"If you are feeling two oppositions simultaneously – for example, in a moment you are feeling that one part wants to dance, another part doesn’t want to dance – then just stand between the two and watch."
-Page 119 "There is a famous chinese saying – that wherever you find one slave there will always be two. And that has great wisdom in it... because a slave cannot be alone. The person to whom he has become a slave has also become a slave to him; it is a mutual understanding. The master, the so-called master, also becomes a slave of his own slave."
-Page 126 "Prayer is far easier for women than meditation. Meditation is more male. Prayer is more female. It is just unnatural to a woman’s being to think that something without love can be fulfilling. Love has to be there as an essential part of anything that can be fulfilling. Even meditation has to have some love in it. Meditation plus love is prayer"
-Page 198 "Stress is natural when you are looking for some result,"
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