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"Let's live our lives with great meaning and purpose in the attempt to influence the world to whatever degree our circumstance allows."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"We are only different because there exists something to be different from, and it is this difference that bonds us."
"Jiu Jitsu has given me something to pursue. We all need something to work towards. For people, as well as every piece of matter in the universe, there is no such thing as maintenance. If you are not growing you are decaying. The insidious nature of modern times is that it is so easy not to pursue anything. Societal norms pressure us into jobs we do not like, and the daily comforts of televisions and computers offer much in the way of distraction. If that isn't enough, there is always the numbing effects of alcohol coupled with attention-grabbing sporting events which conveniently run year round so one is never short of stimulus."
"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."
"If something's existence is contingent upon the existence of another entity, can we truthfully call them separate beings?"
"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 would more appropriately define mastery as the technical ability possible within the constraints of your particular existence. It must be noted that this is a subjective definition, and that this degree of mastery would be individual to each of us."
"We see that the vast majority of our suffering is needless, and simply arises from the misidentification with our thinking mind."
"True mastery, it turns out, is not found in accumulating each and every tool under the sun. True mastery is learning that there are really only a handful of tools, and it is the proper application with correct timing and setting that makes them so useful."
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