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Postby yat_chum » Sun Jan 20, 2008 2:56 am

NOTHING SPECIAL "If you continue this simple practice everyday, you will obtain some wonderful power. Before you attain it, it is something wonderful, but after you attain it, it is nothing special."

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... So to be a human being is to be a Buddha. Buddha nature is just another name for human nature, our true human nature. Thus even though you do not do anything, you are actually doing something. You are expressing yourself. You are expressing your true nature. Your eyes will express; your voice will express; your demeanor will express. The most important thing is to express your true nature in the simplest, most adequate way and to appreciate it in the smallest existence ...

Shunryu Suzuki - Zen mind, beginners mind
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Jan 21, 2008 2:23 am

“Their bodies were splendid, flexible, nimble, skillful, enduring, resistant and yet they had no other tutor in gymnastics but their lives in nature.”
Georges Hébert
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:05 am

'In capoeira as in any fighting art there is the opportunity to keep the body and mind strong and in shape due to continual training. History has shown us time and again that without challenges the mind and body can dull and indeed "let go".' (paraphrased)
Clyde Thompson AKA kavemankat
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:42 am

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), speech to the Republican National Committee, January 31, 1958
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:55 am

"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Jan 25, 2008 2:24 am

"Man's main task is to give birth to himself."
Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
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Postby yat_chum » Sat Jan 26, 2008 5:24 am

"We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age."
Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:28 am

"Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can."
John Wesley
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Jan 28, 2008 2:55 am

"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."
William James (1842 - 1910)
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Jan 29, 2008 2:41 am

"If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well."
Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:51 am

"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."
John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Jan 31, 2008 2:43 am

"I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."
Christopher Reeve
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Feb 01, 2008 2:35 am

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form."
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), quoted in New York Times, March 19, 1940
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Postby yat_chum » Sat Feb 02, 2008 3:31 am

"When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816)
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Feb 03, 2008 2:18 am

Give thou thine heart to the wild magic,
To the Lord and the Lady of Nature,
Beyond any consideration of this world.

Do not covet large or small,
Do not despise weakling or poor,
Semblance of evil allow not near thee,
Never give nor earn thou shame.

The Ancient Harmonies are given thee,
Understand them early and prove,
Be one with the power of the elements,
Put behind thee dishonour and lies.

Be loyal to the Lord of the Wild Wood,
Be true to the Lady of the Stars,
Be true to thine own self besides,
True to the magic of Nature above all else.

Do not thou curse anyone,
Lest thou threefold cursed shouldst be,
And shouldst thou travel ocean and earth,
Follow the very step of the ancient trackways.

Carmina gadelica - ancient Celtic oral tradition
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:38 am

"It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable".
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:08 am

"We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes."
Randy K. Milholland, Midnight Macabre, 10-18-05
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:08 am

"Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the world, but I know it isn't. Failure is part of what makes us human."
Amber Deckers, Ella Mental and the Good Sense Guide
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Feb 07, 2008 11:48 am

"A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man; it is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance."
John Neal
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Feb 08, 2008 2:26 am

"Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long."
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
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