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Chris Matakas

"We are force-fed beliefs through incessant advertisements by a culture that ceaselessly fosters our conformity to values which are of no service to the individual."

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"We are force-fed beliefs through incessant advertisements by a culture that ceaselessly fosters our conformity to values which are of no service to the individual."

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Chris Matakas
"The most obvious, most absurdly recognizable phenomena in day-to-day life often become the hardest to remain consciously aware of."

Mindfulness

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Chris Matakas
"Our social contract is becoming an exchange of free thought for mindless stimuli."

Society

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Chris Matakas
"The quality of your life is directly proportional to the positive effect you have on others' lives."

Life

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Chris Matakas
"For the sincere student, it mustn't be enough to simply understand Jiu Jitsu. We must seek to understand ourselves."

Self-Growth

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Chris Matakas
"I do not begin to think that I could possibly understand its inner-workings and the deepest truths of the cosmos with the 28 years that I have lived in Central New Jersey of the United States of America."

Knowledge

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"Deep down I believe each of us is a well-spring of understanding and wisdom, but we simply never allow the space or time for this understanding to rise to the level of conscious thought."

Wisdom

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Chris Matakas
"To know our values is to have a foundation on which to build a great life. Our environment and education will play a large part in influencing our formulation of this world view, but is ultimately ourselves that have the final say. We must decide what we value, and then live accordingly. After all, in the eyes of the world we could achieve great success, but if our actions do not coincide with what we ourselves truly deem worthy, we will find no peace."

Philosophy

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Chris Matakas
"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."

Creativity

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Chris Matakas
"Just know that the achievement of anything grand takes consistent effort year after year. Motivation can uphold you intermittently, but it has too few calories to sustain a life."

Success

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Chris Matakas
"The secular world often finds its constituents disenfranchised and solitary as it has spent a great deal of time debating the religious community while failing to build a true community of its own."

Society

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Aberjhani

"We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch."

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Aberjhani

"Not everybody that says that you suck is a hater. There are people who suck."

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Aberjhani

"The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things."

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Aberjhani

"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly, the rich have always objected to being governed at all."

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Aberjhani

"Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences."

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Aberjhani

"It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night."

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Aberjhani

"In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape."

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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."

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Aberjhani

"Nobody's sane above the law."

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Aberjhani

"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."

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