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The possessions themselves were not the problem, it was my relationship with possessing. -- Chris Matakas
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All these men recognized what they themselves valued, and lived according to these values regardless of their relationship to the values of their community. Each lived according to what brought them happiness and peace rather than commonplace prescriptions of the multitudes. -- Chris Matakas
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We have an obligation to ourselves to foster the environment that allows for our self-actualization. Rather than my gifts serving me, I must serve them. I want to be a steward of the best aspects of my character and assist them in their fulfillment through proper discipline and habits. -- Chris Matakas
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Choosing to forgo the small rewards of society now will lead to the monumental rewards of becoming a person of value later. -- Chris Matakas
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I train jiu jitsu because I love jiu jitsu. But I also train knowing that my practice in this art will allow me better practice in any art. If you have learned one thing, you have learned all things, because you have learned how to learn. I can think of no more worthwhile pursuit of education. -- Chris Matakas
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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. -- Chris Matakas
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Jiu Jitsu uses us to express itself, and the best thing we can do to is to become a vehicle capable of expressing Jiu Jitsu with all of its perfection minus our imperfections. -- Chris Matakas
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Systems and processes will always surpass motivation. -- Chris Matakas
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No one's life will be harder because I exist. -- Chris Matakas
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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. -- Chris Matakas
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I do not begin to think that I could possibly understand its inner-workings and the deepest truths of the cosmos with the 28 years that I have lived in Central New Jersey of the United States of America. -- Chris Matakas
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Autopilot is great, and removal of thought is one of the highest ideals of training. But removal of thought in the moment must be preceded by purposeful thought beforehand. -- Chris Matakas
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Self-improvement is generally a removal of a vice rather than an acquisition of a virtue. -- Chris Matakas
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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. -- Chris Matakas
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This philosophy teaches us to leave safe harbor for the rough seas of real-world experience, and to accept that a rough copy out in the world serves us far greater than a masterpiece sitting quietly on our shelves. -- Chris Matakas
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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. -- Chris Matakas
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I am acutely aware that all I have been able to achieve has been in large part due to circumstances outside my control. This is why I teach, and this is why I write. I want to be one of those opportunities for others. Perhaps this is the true measure of success. -- Chris Matakas
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Life is always easier when lived for others, and living for others is the best way I know to live for yourself. -- Chris Matakas
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Life is easier lived when lived for others. -- Chris Matakas
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Words make the intangible aspects of human experience communicable, and a single sentence can shatter our world view and assist us in the formulation of a new one. -- Chris Matakas
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Make no mistake, you earn a white belt. The belt is a physical representation of a commitment to the beginner's mind. It is a vulnerability and a willingness to learn that shines through. -- Chris Matakas
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I would more appropriately define mastery as the technical ability possible within the constraints of your particular existence. It must be noted that this is a subjective definition, and that this degree of mastery would be individual to each of us. -- Chris Matakas
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Any advanced student will tell you the best way to recover guard is simply not to get your guard passed in the first place. -- Chris Matakas
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The only way to consistently perform at your potential is to ask: Am I better than I was yesterday? -- Chris Matakas
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The day-to-day grind of adult life brings with it a tedium that weighs heavily on our powers of attention. The same experiences, at the same time and place, day in and day out, breed a familiarity that blunts our senses. -- Chris Matakas
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If we do not master ourselves, we will be a slave to ourselves. -- Chris Matakas
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By becoming a black belt, you will become whatever it is you wanted to be in the first place, and Jiu Jitsu will have served its aim. -- Chris Matakas
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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. -- Chris Matakas
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I believe the devil exists in those little, seemingly unnoticeable moments when we choose to value our own insecurities over the service of others. -- Chris Matakas
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Philosophy is then nothing more than properly directed questions made in an attempt to better understand the world in which we live as a means of improving the quality of one's life. -- Chris Matakas
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Who you are as a person far outweighs what you do in an athletic arena. -- Chris Matakas
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Jesus was not a carpenter forever. -- Chris Matakas
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There is an opportunity cost for everything we do. This is why we must have the awareness to ensure that what we are pursuing is really what we value, because the pursuit leaves countless lost opportunities in its wake. We choose one experience at the sacrifice of all other experiences. -- Chris Matakas
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There is an undeniable truth that as one progresses further in his understanding of a craft the rest of his life progresses along with it. This symbiotic relationship between all things is experienced on a daily basis, but rarely articulated through conscious thought. -- Chris Matakas
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The more closely two organisms depend upon each other the harder it becomes to tell where one organism ends and the other begins. -- Chris Matakas
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If something's existence is contingent upon the existence of another entity, can we truthfully call them separate beings? -- Chris Matakas
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We are very much at the mercy of circumstance, but it is how you choose to respond to circumstance that determines the quality of your life. -- Chris Matakas
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Mastery lies on an infinite continuum, and as a result we will never reach the end. We can, however, see to it that we are as far along that continuum as our circumstance allows. -- Chris Matakas
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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. -- Chris Matakas
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Every opportunity with another was an opportunity to serve my fellow man. Every moment alone was a chance to grow and become more of who I already was. I instantly felt how great a life could be, and that was only made possible by service toward others. -- Chris Matakas
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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. -- Chris Matakas
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The quality of your life is directly proportional to the positive effect you have on others' lives. -- Chris Matakas
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Every interaction with another is an opportunity to serve. -- Chris Matakas
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I have found that the morning is far more accessible when a good book awaits you. -- Chris Matakas
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Epistemologists have come to a loose description of knowledge as justified true belief which is not based off false assumptions, but even this is fallacious as the prerequisite knowledge required for justification makes this a circular definition. -- Chris Matakas
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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. -- Chris Matakas
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Your potential for growth is directly proportionate to the degree to which you are willing to make mistakes. -- Chris Matakas
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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. -- Chris Matakas
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The most meaningful endeavors are the ones that come without an end. -- Chris Matakas
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Jiu Jitsu has shown me that we are not confined to the lot which we inherit. We are not bound to these fetters eternally. They are temporal. We can transcend them should we sincerely choose to. Sincere effort is in fact the rarest virtue among man. -- Chris Matakas
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The major events in our lives receive the entire spotlight, but ultimately your life will be defined by the same handful of choices you make each day. -- Chris Matakas
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As a culture we tend to feel great pride towards our strengths, and shame for our weaknesses. It is time we take notice that these are two pieces of the same whole. -- Chris Matakas
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The most fulfilled among us are those who serve others. -- Chris Matakas
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Wearing a black belt does not make you a super hero, and wearing a white belt does not mean you have little to offer as a person. It is what we do in the belts we wear, and not the belts themselves that matter. -- Chris Matakas
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I can think of no more worthwhile aim than pursuing mastery in this craft while transcending one's own limitations. -- Chris Matakas
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There is no concrete way to play Jiu Jitsu, and this is why so many different types of people find joy in it. -- Chris Matakas
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When you define yourself based on things you have done, in order to maintain that self-image you must constantly look away from the present moment, as you search for a means of self-understanding through past experiences. -- Chris Matakas
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We must remember that science is a way of using empirical evidence to better understand our world. We are all scientists, just many of us are not very good ones. However, we are all capable of exercising our intellects in a purposeful, linear pursuit of knowledge. -- Chris Matakas
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Language has created a barrier that prevents us from seeing existence as it truly is. -- Chris Matakas
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The time we spend talking about Jiu Jitsu is time not spent practicing Jiu Jitsu. This is a necessary aspect of study, but it is one we mustn't lose ourselves in; we learn best by doing. -- Chris Matakas
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We are only different because there exists something to be different from, and it is this difference that bonds us. -- Chris Matakas
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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. -- Chris Matakas
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As a human being, I know of no greater example of success than someone who is self-sustaining through using his passion in the service of others. -- Chris Matakas
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Anyone who has ever achieved anything has been a steward of his potential. -- Chris Matakas
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It is important to realize that we so often define ourselves by what is in opposition to ourselves. -- Chris Matakas
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When we know our values, we can easily measure whether or not our actions are in accordance with them. Values are the measuring sticks with which we determine the worthiness of our actions. To be better associated with one's own values is to remove a lot of the needless activities of daily life. -- Chris Matakas
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Jiu Jitsu is cognitively-complex, so much so that there is a great barrier to entry in terms of intellect. I have never met a great Jiu Jitsu player who was not highly intelligent, and I don't think I ever will. -- Chris Matakas
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Consistently failing is nothing more than an indication that you are progressing. The more we fail the farther we will see. Failure is not an option; it is the only option. A master is a master because he has had the courage to fail and the wisdom to learn from it. -- Chris Matakas
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Plateaus are a manifestation of the law of diminishing returns, and when we reach one it simply means that it is time to adjust our methods. -- Chris Matakas
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For many of us, especially being so fortunate to live in a first-world country, the vast majority of pain we experience is due to the seriousness with which we identify with our thoughts. -- Chris Matakas
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Jiu Jitsu has given me an education in education, which I now see is the most valuable education there is. -- Chris Matakas
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The most obvious, most absurdly recognizable phenomena in day-to-day life often become the hardest to remain consciously aware of. -- Chris Matakas
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No matter how great an achievement you had a year ago, no matter how momentous and critically acclaimed it was, it is still in the past and has no real bearing on the present moment. -- Chris Matakas
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Things can be added, but that doesn't mean that anything is missing. -- Chris Matakas
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An intelligent consistency is the foundation of genius. -- Chris Matakas
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Our social contract is becoming an exchange of free thought for mindless stimuli. -- Chris Matakas
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In Jiu Jitsu, we often fall into the trap of simply trying a technique "harder," rather than recognizing that it is a poorly chosen tool for the task at hand. -- Chris Matakas
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Thoreau went to the woods. I went to the mats. -- Chris Matakas
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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 undertaken. -- Chris Matakas
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It is fellowship, this most fundamental need on our way toward achieving our highest expression of the human experience, which Jiu Jitsu provides. -- Chris Matakas
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We call it training. Not because we are training for Jiu Jitsu. We are training for life. -- Chris Matakas
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In Jiu Jitsu an inch is a mile, and a second is an eternity. Use each wisely. -- Chris Matakas
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Jiu Jitsu can be a source of total transparency such as a mirror, but it takes a conscious choice to see what it has to say. -- Chris Matakas
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Jiu Jitsu provides a place of fellowship that, unfortunately, our society has largely failed to create. -- Chris Matakas
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All of Jiu Jitsu is finding a way to get your partner to willingly go where you want him to go in the first place. -- Chris Matakas
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We must not learn to try harder. The key is to learn how not to try in the first place. -- Chris Matakas
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We seek to understand Jiu Jitsu as a vehicle to understand ourselves. We have different explicit goals, from getting in shape, learning self-defense or competition, but tacitly we all seek mastery of ourselves. -- Chris Matakas
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There is nothing like another's perspective to remind you that your way is not the right way; it is simply your way. -- Chris Matakas
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The great men of all areas of humanity's activities never tried to be a better version of someone else. They simply brought to the table a full life's cultivation of their particular skill sets, experiences, and passions, and we must do the same. -- Chris Matakas
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Thoreau and Huxley calmly state what I have spent years trying to articulate, and never found the words for doing so. To read the words of these great men is to read the highest expression of my very self which is inexpressible due to the shortcomings of my particular nature. -- Chris Matakas
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You have become more and therefore expect more, but never become too purpose-driven to step back and realize just how far you have progressed. -- Chris Matakas
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Your progress as a Jiu Jitsu practitioner is a direct reflection of the standards you have for yourself. -- Chris Matakas
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A core group of guys, all sharing similar goals, can move mountains. -- Chris Matakas
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Jiu Jitsu removes the societal walls that we have been forced to unknowingly hold up with our adopted beliefs. It removes the limits of common thought, and allows for expression of our highest ideals. -- Chris Matakas
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I had no desire of being professionally successful. No desire for material wealth. All I wanted out of life was Jiu Jitsu. -- Chris Matakas
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Jiu Jitsu gave me the opportunity to be a real human being. It opened my heart and my mind. I am kinder, more gentle and more loving due to my efforts in this art. -- Chris Matakas
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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. -- Chris Matakas
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We are so surrounded with this fortune that we tend to forget that though subjectively in abundance, objectively this is a rarity. -- Chris Matakas
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In the modern world we are surrounded by so much abundance that we cannot see it. -- Chris Matakas
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You are the space in which these thoughts arise, but not the thoughts themselves. -- Chris Matakas
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Nothing feels dirtier than living a life that is not your own. No amount of money is worth my soul. I would rather be homeless and go out in a blaze of glory than subject myself to a slow and steady death of apathy and government by my environment. -- Chris Matakas
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We must know where we want to go in order to get there. Our modern lives are growing increasingly chaotic, and it is only a clear, definitive purpose that will keep us on track. -- Chris Matakas
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When we honestly take stock of our ability, we are then granted the opportunity to improve our circumstance. Accessing where you stand is the only way to stand somewhere else. -- Chris Matakas
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Your greatest attribute, that which allows you to accomplish most in life and the most treasured aspect of your being will often be the source of your greatest suffering. -- Chris Matakas
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Life is so unlikely, so rare and beautiful an opportunity it is to live, we must be on constant guard to ensure that our actions are worthy of the life it takes to perform them. -- Chris Matakas
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A life of joy awaits the man who sits alone quietly in a room and determines what he himself believes rather than simply adopting the values of another. -- Chris Matakas
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The knowledge you acquire in an area of study is accompanied by an incalculable ignorance. The farther we get into anything, we learn that we have even farther to go. -- Chris Matakas
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We have this sort of false self we portray over the internet. It's a facade of highlights we believe our peers will deem noteworthy. -- Chris Matakas
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Jiu Jitsu is a vehicle for self-discovery and growth. It reminds me of my ego, of my insecurities, and of my shortcomings. -- Chris Matakas
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Being part of the whole, as I grow so does that which contains me. -- Chris Matakas
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As an instructor, my goal has always been to use Jiu Jitsu as a vehicle to help our students achieve their goals, whatever the case may be. I have yet to find a better vehicle for growth, and the moment I do I will certainly pursue it with the rivaled fervor that I approached Jiu Jitsu. -- Chris Matakas
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Mastery does not exist. -- Chris Matakas
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You have been blessed to stand on the shoulders of giants. Make sure that someone stands on yours as well. This is the only way of human progress. -- Chris Matakas
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A man has only so much life, and must diversify his efforts according to his values. -- Chris Matakas
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Those who serve others have purpose. Those who serve themselves are lost. -- Chris Matakas
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We are free to live the life we have imagined, not the life imagined for us. -- Chris Matakas
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On the other side of self-doubt comes a confidence from faith in the process. Even though our destination may be a long way off, each day we rise with a subtle smile as if we have already achieved it, because, when we are truly committed to a task, we already have. -- Chris Matakas
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This is a trust that you just cannot find in modern society for there are no conditions to forge it. -- Chris Matakas
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Jiu Jitsu is basic training for life. We are training not to learn how to fight, but how to live. -- Chris Matakas
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It is a shock to many college graduates that their segway into the real world is one of obligation, profound debt, and countless sacrifices of the soul. -- Chris Matakas
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Life is a constant build up and release of tension. If we go too far in either direction bad things happen. -- Chris Matakas
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True mastery, it turns out, is not found in accumulating each and every tool under the sun. True mastery is learning that there are really only a handful of tools, and it is the proper application with correct timing and setting that makes them so useful. -- Chris Matakas
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Mastery, to whatever degree your circumstance allows, is determined by a handful of choices repeated daily. -- Chris Matakas
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For the sincere student, it mustn't be enough to simply understand Jiu Jitsu. We must seek to understand ourselves. -- Chris Matakas
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In the history of history, there has never been someone with your particular genetic make-up or life experiences. This being the case, we have no reference points with which to compare ourselves, and therefore it is futile to attempt to measure yourself relative to others. -- Chris Matakas
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There is no higher calling than the service of your fellow man, and to do so through your own personal mastery of a craft is a gift enjoyed by few. -- Chris Matakas
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A saw by itself holds no value, but when coupled with your labor can clear forests. -- Chris Matakas
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Anyone can be tough for a season. It takes a special kind of human to rise to life's challenges for a lifetime. -- Chris Matakas
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Jiu Jitsu gives each of us something that no other sport can. We have the opportunity to become truly great regardless of what circumstance fate has handed us. We have complete freedom and responsibility to achieve whatever level of mastery we wish. -- Chris Matakas
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All successful people live how great guard passers pass. -- Chris Matakas
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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. -- Chris Matakas
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So by being created, you are automatically made manifest within a system in which you are directly associated with your creator, and it is this association that we define as a relationship. -- Chris Matakas
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I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it. -- Chris Matakas
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There is no greater truth in determining one's philosophy as to the way they live their lives. This is an all-pervading, bull****-repellent way to understand what you or anyone else truly believes. -- Chris Matakas
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That nagging state of constant thought that exists somewhere between the ears and behind the eyes is the self. -- Chris Matakas
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There is no higher calling than service to your fellow man, and to do so through your own personal mastery of a craft is a gift enjoyed by few. Cultivate this gift, and give it away. -- Chris Matakas
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Everyone, no matter how historically famous or modernly praised, has no idea about the ultimate truth of what it means to be human. -- Chris Matakas
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We can either approach Jiu Jitsu through the lens of the "real world" or we can approach the real world through the lens of Jiu Jitsu. I have found the latter to be far more rewarding. -- Chris Matakas
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The highest aim was never to master Jiu Jitsu; it was to master myself. -- Chris Matakas
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An arm bar in a vacuum is worthless. It is the realization of the truths which constitute that arm bar that is the real treasure we seek. -- Chris Matakas
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We are not practicing Jiu Jitsu to learn how to fight, we are learning how to live. -- Chris Matakas
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Let's live our lives with great meaning and purpose in the attempt to influence the world to whatever degree our circumstance allows. -- Chris Matakas
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The secular world often finds its constituents disenfranchised and solitary as it has spent a great deal of time debating the religious community while failing to build a true community of its own. -- Chris Matakas
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We must remember that the end of personal mastery is service to others. -- Chris Matakas
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The infinitude of Jiu Jitsu allows for the infinitude of the types of practitioners. There exists a game for each and every one of us which is specifically possible within the confines of our particular skill set. -- Chris Matakas
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I have found the more worthwhile something is, the more of your life is required to achieve it. -- Chris Matakas
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We forget that things can only be things when there is something which is not a thing, the space. -- Chris Matakas
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Society is a collection of selves perpetuating their myth. -- Chris Matakas
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Freedom from the thinking mind is our underlying goal for most of human activity. -- Chris Matakas
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We are never truly ourselves as we are mid-roll. -- Chris Matakas
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Constantly re-evaluating your purpose is the best way to ensure that you are pursuing the goals of who you are and not who you used to be. -- Chris Matakas
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In whatever we do, we should be investing in ourselves and not our jobs. Everything I have ever pursued has been for the sole goal of who I was becoming in its achievement. I competed and fought because of the man I became. This is the only worthwhile victory. You cannot take the trophies with you. -- Chris Matakas
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Nothing worthwhile ever came from divided attention. -- Chris Matakas
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The point of meditating is not to learn to sit quietly in a room. The point is to live that way in the world. -- Chris Matakas
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Yes, you have been molding your ability to perform Jiu Jitsu for all these years, but you have been more importantly molding who you are as a person. Jiu Jitsu is the sculptor, and you are the clay. It is with this art that we strive and reach for our highest ideals not as athletes, but as people. -- Chris Matakas
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If you can wrestle but not play Jiu Jitsu, or you can play Jiu Jitsu but not wrestle, you are not a complete grappler and lack the sufficient skills to safely subdue an opponent. -- Chris Matakas
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My growth as a human being has been directly proportional to my growth as a marital artist. -- Chris Matakas
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I train because it makes every area of my life better, and it makes me better at every area of my life. -- Chris Matakas
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Jiu Jitsu is the vehicle. Not the road. -- Chris Matakas
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Do not seek victory, for victory in itself will not serve you. Seek to understand what made the victory possible. -- Chris Matakas
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Jiu Jitsu is a baptism by combat, and serves a purpose in the inner life of the individual that has always existed, but our modern culture fails to acknowledge. -- Chris Matakas
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We can lose the roll, we can lose position, but we can constantly strive to win the moment. -- Chris Matakas
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To achieve anything we must grind, but to enjoy anything we must flow. -- Chris Matakas
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I have never been as alive or awake as I have been through Jiu Jitsu. -- Chris Matakas
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When you realize you are no longer made of glass, you lose the desire to demonstrate that fragility in others. -- Chris Matakas
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It is only when we admit our ignorance that we can hope to overcome it. -- Chris Matakas
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We tend to view ourselves as this, lying in contradiction with everything that is not ourselves, that. -- Chris Matakas
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The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance. -- Chris Matakas
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When we let go of the story, we are no longer bound to it. -- Chris Matakas
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Perhaps the journey towards epiphany is an unseen, steady process towards understanding. Likened to a combination safe, as you scroll the dial towards the inevitable correct combination you cannot tangibly see your progress. -- Chris Matakas
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In my own life, I have always viewed personal mastery as simply a medium through which I become capable of providing more service toward my fellow man. -- Chris Matakas
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Empathy is a breaking down of the false constructs of division between the observer and the observed. -- Chris Matakas
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We rise to meet each day because there will come a time when the day will rise without us -- Chris Matakas
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Nothing better cements the false self than one's Facebook page. -- Chris Matakas
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Deep down I believe each of us is a well-spring of understanding and wisdom, but we simply never allow the space or time for this understanding to rise to the level of conscious thought. -- Chris Matakas
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You are never as good as you think you are, and you are never as bad as you believe yourself to be. -- Chris Matakas
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The more specifically you define your goals the more attainable they become. -- Chris Matakas
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Where my tendons have been torn, my psyche has been mended. This was a worthy trade. -- Chris Matakas
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The more we have outside ourselves the harder it is to get inside ourselves. -- Chris Matakas
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Our most valuable victories are those which go without praise. -- Chris Matakas
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We are all philosophers. The only question is to what extent is our philosophy sound! -- Chris Matakas
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My time in the woods is time spent with a tutor on how to live. -- Chris Matakas
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Habits are infinitely more beneficial to the aspiring student than motivation. Motivation may get you started, but habits keep you going. -- Chris Matakas
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It is in community where we find our very selves. -- Chris Matakas
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The greatest effects we have on the world are the ones we can never see. -- Chris Matakas
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Your happiness is in direct proportion to the amount you serve others. -- Chris Matakas
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It was my letting go that gave me a better hold. -- Chris Matakas
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Every moment is an opportunity to exercise effort in pursuit of your dreams. Whether you do or do not rests solely on your shoulders. -- Chris Matakas
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Nowhere in the history of man has there existed someone with your particular set of experiences and skills, which means there exists a mode of play that you are unequivocally predestined to succeed in more than any other. -- Chris Matakas
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If nothing lasts then everything has meaning. If everything dies that means we actually live. -- Chris Matakas
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Do not get caught pursuing the goals of who you used to be instead of who you are. -- Chris Matakas
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All of the great writers and sages we are so quick to quote have simply given their interpretation of what it means to be human. -- Chris Matakas
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This constant mental diatribe and the frustrations, worries, insecurities and muscular tension that ensues are the self. -- Chris Matakas
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The only permanent aspect of creation is constant impermanence. -- Chris Matakas
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If you do not define success for yourself, you may unknowingly adopt someone else's definition along the way. -- Chris Matakas
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There are no trophies for the real victories in life. -- Chris Matakas
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The very fact that you can observe this thinking mind is proof that you are not this thinking mind. -- Chris Matakas
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When your words enter the material world in the form of ink or on screen, you are immediately afforded the opportunity to judge their worth. -- Chris Matakas
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He plays the same game, but for the first time in his life he is truly playing, rather than working, being a human, and this is a vast distinction realized by few. -- Chris Matakas
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Your job as a young adult is to become as valuable to the marketplace as you can. Your job as a human is to do so without working a day in your life. -- Chris Matakas
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This is what it means to be mindful. To watch the thoughts as they come and go without judgment while completely accepting what arises in the present moment. -- Chris Matakas
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What greater fetter to anchoring ourselves to the false notion of self could there be than a selfie? It is named after an illusion! -- Chris Matakas
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But, objectively, beyond the level of thought, the drunk on the street corner is equally a child of God. -- Chris Matakas
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We see that happiness is not comfort. Happiness is the freedom to choose one's own way. -- Chris Matakas
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We will never be capable of true relationships with others if we continue to view them as others. -- Chris Matakas
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Properly directed thoughts result in properly directed actions. The only way to appropriately guide our thoughts is to know their foundation, our values. -- Chris Matakas
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Service, it seems, is the only antidote to existential frustration. -- Chris Matakas
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I firmly believe that life will continually try to teach you the same lesson, with increasing pain, until you heed the call. -- Chris Matakas
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Everything is relative, including relativity. -- Chris Matakas
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I have always found that effort is most easily produced when performed for the benefit of something external to ourselves. -- Chris Matakas
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We are just too busy trying to appear smart to realize how intelligent we actually are. -- Chris Matakas