Dallas Willard Quotes

This is the Zen approach: nothing is there to be done. There is nothing to do. One has just to be. Have a rest and be ordinary and be natural.

You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty.

Meditation is not concentration. It is simple awareness. You simply relax and watch the breathing. In that watching, nothing is excluded. The car is humming - perfectly okay, accept it. The traffic is passing - that's okay, part of life. The fellow passenger snoring by your side, accept it. Nothing is rejected. You are not to narrow down your consciousness.

When you are here and now, sitting totally, not jumping ahead, the miracle has happened. To be in the moment is the miracle.

All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.

Just stay present in the moment, and what will come will come.

I try to just stay in the present moment as much as possible.

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.

Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

You will have to learn ways of relaxing in the present. Enlightenment is not an effort to achieve something. It is a state of effortlessness. It is a state of no-action. It is a state of tremendous passivity, receptivity. You are not doing anything, you are not thinking anything, you are not planning for anything, you are not doing yoga exercises, and you are not doing any technique, any method - you are simply existing, just existing. And in that very moment... the sudden realization that all is as it should be. That's what enlightenment is!

He didn't remember, he didn't worry, he just was.

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax.

Be very very still and allow every new experience to take place in your life without any resistance whatsoever. You do not have to do anything, you simply have to be and let things happen.

Learning to pause is the first step in the practice of Radical Acceptance. A pause is a suspension of activity, a time of temporary disengagement when we are no longer moving toward any goal ... The pause can occur in the midst of almost any activity and can last for an instant, for hours or for seasons of our life ... You might try it now: Stop reading and sit there, doing 'no thing,' and simply notice what you are experiencing.

Be patient, do nothing, cease striving. We find this advice disheartening and therefore unfeasible because we forget it is our own inflexible activity that is structuring the reality. We think that if we do not hustle, nothing will happen and we will pine away. But the reality is probably in motion and after a while we might take part in that motion. But one can't know.

An amazing realization is in the present moment there is only what is, but there are no problems. And if your attention remains in the Now, you no longer inhabit a world of problems. Challenges you may still face, but they come to you in the space of Now.

In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility.

When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.

Relax, let go. But remember only one thing: You are a witness.

You don't always have to be doing something. The most of something that you can do sometimes is to be in the present doing nothing.

I live in the present moment.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.

One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.