229 quotes found
“Mastery does not exist.”
“Jesus was not a carpenter forever.”
“Jiu Jitsu is the vehicle. Not the road.”
“Life is easier lived when lived for others.”
“No one's life will be harder because I exist.”
“Thoreau went to the woods. I went to the mats.”
“Things can be added, but that doesn't mean that anything is missing.”
“Habits are infinitely more beneficial to the aspiring student than motivation. Motivation may get you started, but habits keep you going.”
“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.”
“Systems and processes will always surpass motivation.”
“I firmly believe that life will continually try to teach you the same lesson, with increasing pain, until you heed the call.”
“We see that happiness is not comfort. Happiness is the freedom to choose one's own way.”
“Jiu Jitsu forges friendships in a way Ive never known. Being involved in an art as intimate as this, where bodily connection is a must, the common cultural boundaries of personal space are broken. ...”
“Through Jiu Jitsu I have developed many of the most meaningful relationships in my life, and if that were the only benefit of my practice, Jiu Jitsu would still be the best endeavor I have ever und...”
“Relationships formed through Jiu Jitsu are deeply rooted in respect for one another, and this is often not the case in matters of modern society.”
“Jiu Jitsu provides a place of fellowship that, unfortunately, our society has largely failed to create.”
“It is fellowship, this most fundamental need on our way toward achieving our highest expression of the human experience, which Jiu Jitsu provides.”
“This is the opportunity the fellowship of Jiu Jitsu affords us. To reach our highest potential of self, and then to offer that self to another.”
“As far as our relation to the physical world, I doubt there will be much more improvement. Our basic survival needs have been met, and much of our current progress is superfluous or downright troub...”
“We see that the vast majority of our suffering is needless, and simply arises from the misidentification with our thinking mind.”
“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.”
“We are now forced to actively pursue our struggles. If we do not go out of our way to stretch our comfort zones and grow, no one nor nature will do it for us.”
“Society is a collection of selves perpetuating their myth.”
“I envision a world in which the vast majority of us are actively striving toward our potential by serving others through mediums we are most passionate.”
“When you give your weakness permission to be because you understand that it is simply an expression of your strength, it tends to no longer be a weakness.”
“The point of meditating is not to learn to sit quietly in a room. The point is to live that way in the world.”
