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Chris Matakas

"This is what it means to be mindful. To watch the thoughts as they come and go without judgment while completely accepting what arises in the present moment."

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"This is what it means to be mindful. To watch the thoughts as they come and go without judgment while completely accepting what arises in the present moment."

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"Moment is a flower. Mindfulness is sipping the nectar of that flower."

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"In every bend of time there is some surprise, joy and beauty. Mindfulness is the light to discover it."

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"Mindfulness helps us to live in harmony with our thoughts, words and actions."

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"Mindfulness is not chasing the moment but beautifying the moment."

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"Mindfulness is the art of cosmic collaboration."

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"If you are not living in active consciousness, you will always be lost."

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"Every morning I drink a glass of water to be humble and simple like water."

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"You can see your thoughts and emotions arise & create space for them even if they are uncomfortable."

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"Time, place, and space for all things, but spending [the] majority of one's time playing in outer places, and far less time exploring inner space, is perhaps the worst form of neglect. Don't play yourself; the real you awaits."

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"Create gaps between stimulus and reaction and the gap will show you the path."

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"Jiu Jitsu gives each of us something that no other sport can. We have the opportunity to become truly great regardless of what circumstance fate has handed us. We have complete freedom and responsibility to achieve whatever level of mastery we wish."
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"In Jiu Jitsu, we often fall into the trap of simply trying a technique "harder," rather than recognizing that it is a poorly chosen tool for the task at hand."
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"He plays the same game, but for the first time in his life he is truly playing, rather than working, being a human, and this is a vast distinction realized by few."
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"The only way to consistently perform at your potential is to ask: Am I better than I was yesterday?"
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"Empathy is a breaking down of the false constructs of division between the observer and the observed."
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"When you give your weakness permission to be because you understand that it is simply an expression of your strength, it tends to no longer be a weakness."
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"Thoreau and Huxley calmly state what I have spent years trying to articulate, and never found the words for doing so. To read the words of these great men is to read the highest expression of my very self which is inexpressible due to the shortcomings of my particular nature."
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"The most obvious, most absurdly recognizable phenomena in day-to-day life often become the hardest to remain consciously aware of."
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"There is an undeniable truth that as one progresses further in his understanding of a craft the rest of his life progresses along with it. This symbiotic relationship between all things is experienced on a daily basis, but rarely articulated through conscious thought."
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"This constant mental diatribe and the frustrations, worries, insecurities and muscular tension that ensues are the self."
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