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"The point of meditating is not to learn to sit quietly in a room. The point is to live that way in the world."
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"Stolen moments create a feeling of enjoyment in our "intensive time awareness. The glow and the intensity of those instants can guide us throughout a whole lifetime. They can expose a second or a third dimension of the daily events and shed an expounding light on all the little details we encounter. ['Stolen moments']"
"Freedom from the thinking mind is our underlying goal for most of human activity."
"I have no time to look back. My heart is dancing in the present moment feeling the joy of life."
"Be captivated by your hearts desire, not distracted by your minds fear."
"Movement is the freedom of the body; stillness, of the mind."
"The road to happiness starts with a deep breath and an awareness of the many blessings tied to that single breath."
"Mindfulness is that space where you are in touch with life-experience and you are brightly aware."
"Be control of your mind."
"You cannot be who you are not. Simply rest, sit still and unknot. You may even try to emulate and inspire,But it's the inner self that you'll transpire."
"You can see your thoughts and emotions arise & create space for them even if they are uncomfortable."
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"When we honestly take stock of our ability, we are then granted the opportunity to improve our circumstance. Accessing where you stand is the only way to stand somewhere else."
"Today's world is flooded with participation trophies. In an attempt to promote equality we have robbed our youth of the most growth-inducing aspect of competition, failing. If you want to be resurrected, you have to first be crucified. Everybody wants to be reborn, but no one is willing to die. Losing, in the context of whatever arena it may be, is a microcosmic death. When we learn from our failures and grow because of them, we are reborn."
"I believe the devil exists in those little, seemingly unnoticeable moments when we choose to value our own insecurities over the service of others."
"This philosophy teaches us to leave safe harbor for the rough seas of real-world experience, and to accept that a rough copy out in the world serves us far greater than a masterpiece sitting quietly on our shelves."
"I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it."
"We are the estranged orphans of our nations and tribes, and we now bear the weight not of survival of the group but of personal identity."
"I have seen far by seeing through the lens of Jiu Jitsu. I have exchanged a great deal of physical health for these insights, and these were trades worth making. My efforts were worth the return. I have sacrificed much in the name of this craft. Not for trophies or belts or prestige. For these fall away like dust. I pursued this art so fervently because it was not actually Jiu Jitsu I pursued. It was myself."
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