A Quote by T. J. Perkins

At the Cruiserweight Classic finale, I said... I don't know if people had looked it up, or if they had heard it before, but it was an old Zen proverb. 'Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, you chop wood, carry water.' It can be interpreted a lot of ways, but for the most part it's about staying in the moment.

T. J. Perkins

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T. J. Perkins
American - Wrestler
Born: September 3, 1984

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

Gautama Buddha

I'll never forget a Podcast I did with Dr Joseph Mercola when my bestseller, 'The Plant Paradox' had just come out. He was wild about the book, and apoligized that he had never heard of me before the book. He asked what I had been doing for so many years. I replied that I was merely following the Buddha's advice to 'chop wood and carry water.'

Steven Gundry

When I chop wood, I chop wood. When I carry water, I carry water.

Layman Pang

I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.

Jennifer Lawrence

Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.

Matsuo Basho

The relaxation should not be a method. You should not relax through a Yoga posture. This very understanding is relaxing, this very understanding is relaxation. You relax, effort disappears. You live your ordinary life - you chop wood and you carry water from the well and you cook food and you eat and you sleep and you love and you live ordinarily with no hankering and no desire for anything extraordinary.

Rajneesh

I get up every morning and chop wood, and I pretty much do it seven days a week, and I like to do it. I still have time for my wife and my son, who's 14, and at this point, my head is still above water.

James Patterson

Do you speak Chopnese huh? Do ya? Chop chop chop chop chop. Aha you don't.

PewDiePie

I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.

Sade Adu

I adore water, so it would be a real adventure to visit the Amazon before they chop down all the trees.

Michelle Ryan

When you chop wood, chips fly.

Nikolai Yezhov

When you chop wood, splinters fly

Joseph Stalin

Boys need wood to chop.

Stephen D. Nadauld

But there's a lot of them that had that exact reaction, who had never heard Trump speak before. And I remember when I said this after [Donald] Trump's speech, I had a lot of emails. "Come, Rush! It's not... People aren't that segregated anymore." Don't doubt me on this. The left, you do not know how they sequester themselves.