Effortless Action Quotes

Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than force them.

Practice non-action. Work without doing.

Oh, tweeting prolifically is the most easy thing in the world. Tweeting prolifically is like somebody saying, 'Boy, you're a really good walker around,' you know. It's not really hard.

He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try.

The Tao never acts with force, yet there is nothing that it can not do.

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.

To the man who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible.

The things that are more my own style are something that I don't really have to think about. The only time I have to think about them is if I want to force myself not to do it the way I do it.

I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.

....success in walking is not to let your right foot know what your left foot doeth. Your heart must furnish such music that in keeping time to it your feet will carry you around the globe without knowing it.

He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.

He who is harmony with Nature hits the mark without effort and apprehends the truth without thinking.

Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.

The highest technique is to have no technique. My technique is a result of your technique; my movement is a result of your movement.

The less you worry about things the more you just do it naturally.

Heaven does nothing: its non-doing is its serenity. Earth does nothing: its non-doing is its rest. From the union of these two non-doings All actions proceed. All things are made. How vast, how invisible This coming-to-be! All things come from nowhere! How vast, how invisible No way to explain it! All beings in their perfection Are born of non-doing. Hence it is said: Heaven and earth do nothing Yet there is nothing they do not do. Where is the man who can attain To this non-doing?

Act non-action; undertake no undertaking; taste the tasteless.

Do what is healing to your spirit and without effort you will bring the world healing in return.

Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.

All natural results are spontaneous. The diamond sparkles without effort, and the flowers open impulsively beneath the summer rain. And true religion is a spontaneous thing,--as natural as it is to weep, to love, or to rejoice.

The master does his job and then stops. He understands that the universe is forever out of control, and that trying to dominate events goes against the current of the Tao.

The Tao of the sage is work without effort.

The gentlest thing in the world overcomes the hardest thing in the world. That which has no substance enters where there is no space. This shows the value of non-action. Teaching without words, performing without actions: that is the Master's way.

First you have to do all that you can do, and then you have to learn non-doing. The doing of the non-doing is the greatest doing, and the effort of effortlessness is the greatest effort.

The Tao is always at ease. It overcomes without competing, answers without speaking a word, arrives without being summoned, accomplishes without a plan. Its net covers the whole universe. And though its meshes are wide, it doesn't let a thing slip through.