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Chris Matakas

"When you realize you are no longer made of glass, you lose the desire to demonstrate that fragility in others."

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"When you realize you are no longer made of glass, you lose the desire to demonstrate that fragility in others."

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"Carry your wounds with pride, Believe in yourself; amongst greatest of catastrophe' You grew into the being you are And I think that in itself, is certainly enough."

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"Life can only be live with great courage."

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"Strength accomplishes sizable things. Wisdom accomplishes incredible things. Faith accomplishes remarkable things. Love accomplishes unbelievable things."

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"Pain in your past will become power in your future. So make suffering essential."

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"Strength and weakness are both mental constructs. Now you choose, what's preferable for you."

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"Every great soul nurtures strong positive mental power."

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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."
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"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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"We see that the vast majority of our suffering is needless, and simply arises from the misidentification with our thinking mind."
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"There are no trophies for the real victories in life."
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"Jiu Jitsu gives me an ideal to strive toward. Technical mastery lies on an infinite continuum and completion of this skill is impossible. Every time I train I have something that I can improve upon, and this will hold true for each and every training session that lies between me and my grave."
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"Your potential for growth is directly proportionate to the degree to which you are willing to make mistakes."
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"After I received my blue belt, I soon recognized that the belts were simply an external representation of an inner experience, and that they mattered little compared to the person I was becoming."
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"Freedom from the thinking mind is our underlying goal for most of human activity."
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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."
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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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