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"There is no concrete way to play Jiu Jitsu, and this is why so many different types of people find joy in it."
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"The best indicator of a man's philosophy is not what he reads or says, but the way in which he lives his life, the way in which he acts."
"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."
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"I wanted to get to the most essential aspect of my being, and look around for a while. I wanted to explore what I am in my most basic self. I wanted to chip away at all of the nonsense I have acquired through my twenty-nine years on this earth. I wanted to find truth. Thoreau went to the woods. I went to the mats. Jiu Jitsu has peeled the veil of daily life, and has shown me what lies beyond the curtain. We willingly accept the chains that circumstance forces upon us, and we grow to find comfort in them. We attach various fetters of day-to-day living to our being, and we do so with a smile. We accept these constraints for they come in the way of comfort. We accept conformity for it appears the path of least resistance. We strive toward the middle, and we run from ourselves."
"The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance."
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