Anthony Horowitz Quotes

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

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

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?

Presence is more than just being there.

Your soul is Me, and it knows it. What it is doing, is trying to experience that. And what it is remembering is that the best way to have this experience is by not doing anything. There is nothing to do but to be.

Progress means nothing to presence.

The point of life is not to get anywhere-it is to notice that you are, and have always been, already there.

The command is "Do no work." Just make space. Attend to what is around you. Learn that you don't have to DO to BE. accept the grace of doing nothing. Stay with it until you stop jerking and squirming.

It's almost impossible to dislike me, because I do nothing.

The mountains were there and so was I.

I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes.

There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us, our rightful lord: we are not to do, but to let do; not to work, but to be worked upon.

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

Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of form a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast - or else there is nothing at all.

There is nothing to do but be.

The simple fact of yourself... there it is... just you... no excitement about it... a very simple fact... the only thing you have... keep it as clear as you can.

Meditation is not doing something. But you cannot take a jump immediately into non-doing. So I suggest that you make your doing total. Move into it so deeply, and so totally that suddenly the doing drops, and you alone are left, just existing.

Being, not doing, is my first joy.

Everybody is somewhere.

When becoming disappears, all the smoke of becoming disappears, there is the flame of being, and that very flame is celebration.

Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.

I exist in two places, here and where you are.

If things are real, they're there all the time.

Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.