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Chris Matakas

"It was my letting go that gave me a better hold."

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"It was my letting go that gave me a better hold."

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Chris Matakas
"We must remember that the end of personal mastery is service to others."

Spiritual

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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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Chris Matakas
"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."

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Aberjhani

"Whatever happens, accept it with grace."

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Aberjhani

"Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfilment."

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Aberjhani

"No one's approval is enough to make up for a lack of self-love, which is really a lack of self-awareness.When we feel a desire to be loved, it isn't other people's love we need. It's our own relationship with love that we're longing for, our own awareness of being interconnected with others, our own sense of the magic of our own interwoven existence. To seek the fulfillment of this desire in others' approval is a losing battle. It will never be enough. No one can compliment you enough to supplement for the acceptance that you need from your own self, in each moment. Acceptance for your struggles and your talents. Acceptance for your humanity. Celebration of that humanity.Love is an inside job."

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Aberjhani

"The past cannot be changed, forgotten, edited or erased; it can only be accepted."

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Aberjhani

"The closest thing to perfection is imperfection."

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Aberjhani

"You are too blessed to be worrying about your imperfections. Your original self is perfect in God's eyes, and His opinions will always matter the most."

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Personal Development

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Aberjhani

"It's not that I've been invited to the hole I'm standing in. It's that I accepted the invitation."

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Personal Development

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Aberjhani

"The dimension of space and time, represented by what is transpiring in the here and now, is all that we will ever know. Unlike the continuum of perpetual time and infinite space, everything that we know will experience disruption, dissolution, disintegration, dismemberment, and death. The inevitability of our ending represents the tragic comedy of life. Much of our needless suffering emanates from resisting our impermanence rather than embracing our fate. Only through acceptance of the events and situations that occur in a person's life including suffering, and by releasing our attachments, will a person ever experience enlightenment."

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Aberjhani

"No matter how hard you try, you can't please everyone."

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Aberjhani

"It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important."

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Personal Development

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