191 quotes found
“one lives and analyses data within a frame, unaware that the solution is most often just outside of that frame. Never underestimate the depth of your subjectivity.”
“True strength. There is no conflict with vulnerability or humility. Indeed, vulnerability and humility are essential here, and ultimately what makes strength true. One does not don the mask of stre...”
“Laughter has got to be the single healthiest activity one can perform. Just think how healthy you would be if you could sincerely laugh at that which now oppresses you.”
“The typical image of a depressed, lazy and tired person is someone hunched over and inert. Often, the assumption is that if one had more enthusiasm and inspiration, he would then stand up straight ...”
“No one will improve his health significantly without accurately perceiving priorities, knowing clearly what is at stake if those are not attended to and what is to be gained if acted on correctly. ...”
“Well-being, or wholeness, implies integrity and harmony between all existing elements, providing freedom for the whole.”
“Ironically, many of the institutions that run the economy, such as medicine, education, law and even psychology are largely dependent upon failing health. If you add up the amounts of money exchang...”
“Physical well-being necessitates listening to what you already know, and then taking it seriously enough to act accordingly. When you wake up and feel the impulse to arch your back, stretch and exh...”
“In my experience, most people are actually seeking recovery from the monotony and anxiety of qualitative repetition. This applies to body, emotions and mind. And that monotony and anxiety involves ...”
“Yearning often does not provide a sense of attainment or peace, as it is fuel for ones personal purpose, to in some specific way give or create; to do that is not necessarily easy or peaceful.”
“If I were to make a list of focus for well-being, I would begin with lifestyle (the totality of ones circumstance and how that is engaged, including job and relationships, and proximity to nature),...”
“Its highly refined stuffholding to ones purpose and focus, but also intuiting the value of being a piece in a larger design and evolution. The balance between these two rhythms is where and when tr...”
“The essential dynamic underlying almost every elite and esoteric physical art is work with the breath, so theres information available. I would only add that its unfortunate that so much work is do...”
“Getting down to the gym a couple days a week and having low-fat milk in your morning latte isnt going to make much of a dent in a system or lifestyle that is essentially, well, unwell.”
“If youre ignoring a high percentage of the elements of your entire being, and the range of qualities they can naturally engage, there will be no real recovery or progress until you do. The typical ...”
“The human body, like the human mind, is best at versatility and adaptability. This is our greatest skill and our greatest chance to unlock natural potential. What that means in terms of physical mo...”
“As Ive mentioned too often before, we are governed, and specifically our physicality is governed, by fairly strict rules, which are easily observable in nature. We have some freedom to manipulate s...”
“Besides having been identified recently as the single most important factor in what men find sexy in women, the list of how correct posture influences internal organs and systems, and also mood and...”
“I look at the idea of rest as rotating ones qualitative focus, not just doing less or changing activity. The role of rest is recovery. If you keep pushing the same quality button (fast or slow, con...”
“The trick is in genuinely appreciating the elements of apparent resistance while you are engaging them. Not to oppose or remove them as much as to creatively fold them into ones linear line of move...”
