#Effortlessness Quotes

“A good runner leaves no footprints.”

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

“The sage acts by doing nothing.”

“Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.”

“Nature does not have to insist.”

“How can a man's life keep it's course If he will not let it flow, Those who flow as life flows know They need no other force: They feel no wear, they feel no tear, They need no mending, no repair.”

“In the Universe the difficult things are done as if they were easy.”

“Act without doing; work without effort. Think of the small as large and the few as many. Confront the difficult while it is still easy; accomplish the great task by a series of small acts. The Master never reaches for the great; thus she achieves greatness. When she runs into a difficulty, she stops and gives herself to it. She doesn't cling to her own comfort; thus problems are no problem for her.”

“Nature's way is simple and easy, but men prefer the intricate and artificial.”

“Do nondoing, strive for non-stiving, savor the flavourless, make much of little, repay enmity with virture; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small.”

“A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will. This is a paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can't tell the dancer from the dance. It happens when we trust the intelligence of the universe in the same way that an athlete or a dancer trusts the superior intelligence of the body.”

“The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.”

“When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.”

“The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.”

“Practice non-action. Work without doing.”