“All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony; then you will gain peace.”
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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
(Source: engagingpeople)
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“[T]here are two kinds of purposes. The purpose of having a result, something that exists after the process is stopped, and does not exist until it has stopped, … and there is the purpose of carrying on, of keeping the process going, just as one may breathe so as to continue breathing. The purpose is to carry on.”
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“The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
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“Its habit of getting up late you’ll agree
That it carries too far, when I say
That it frequently breakfasts at five-o’clock tea,
And dines on the following day.”
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“It’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the “parlour families” today. The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the radios and televisors, but are not. No, no, it’s not books at all you’re looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for it in nature and look for it in yourself. Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”
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“Everyone gets a certain look when I use that word. Moral. It’s a word with very bad PR, thanks to certain pressure groups that have come and gone over the last several decades.” … “However, it was one of the tenets of the church I grew up in, waiting to use something until you’re moral enough. It sounded like a great idea. But according to the church, we’re only moral enough for a very simple level of living.”
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“Obviously, a better idea is to be, oh, immoral enough to manipulate something instead of being manipulated by it.”
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“Junbi Taiso,” by Nev Sagiba
In the equestrian world, non-riders, in a similar way like to think that horses are for sitting on and they can’t wait to hop on. They get dumped. If you don’t understand a horse from the ground up, you will never be a true rider, merely a bully with no understanding. In the few instances I’ve taught people to ride they do not get to sit on a horse until they are ready. If that takes six months then that’s what it takes. They first have to develop a relationship with the horse on the ground and get to understand and be understood by the horse. Just as with horse sense, Aiki sense begins from the ground up. Positioning is paramount in both instances. If you can’t catch a horse on open ground by drawing the horse to you, you are no horseman. Until then you do not really deserve to ride or be considered a rider. The true equestrian catches untamed horses like this as well. It’s nothing mystical, but a skill. There’s no need for hard chases, yards, ropes, pulleys and buck jumping. That’s for the unskilled.
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“Life is like a gathering at the Olympic festival, to which, having set forth from different lives and backgrounds, people flock for three motives. To compete for the glory of the crown, to buy and sell or as spectators. So in life, some enter the services of fame and others of money, but the best choice is that of these few who spend their time in the contemplation of nature, and as lovers of wisdom.”
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