June 2012
“Behold the human creature! For man holds heaven and earth and other created things within himself. He is one form, and within him all things are concealed.”
Hildegard of Bingen (c. 1150)
“How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all its beauty? It felt the encouragement of light against it’s being, otherwise we all remain too frightened.”
- Hafiz
Not a great article on how to squat but filled with great quotes about squatting. e.g. ”Some people will tell you to look straight ahead as you squat. Some will tell you to look at a point five or ten feet in front of you on the ground. I’ll tell you where you should be looking when you squat: into your soul. Into the depths of the fire inside, where pain and promise are one. Look into the place where hardcoreness resides.”
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.”
- Swami Vivekananda
“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
- Bruce Lee
“You are your own master,
you make your future.
Therefore discipline yourself
as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred.”
- Buddha
“Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.”
- Rabindranath Tagore
“The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.”
- George Bernard Shaw
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
“Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.”
- Samuel Johnson
“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.”
- Oscar Wilde
“Let this truth go as deep in you as possible: that life is already here, arrived. You are standing on the goal. Don’t ask about the path.”
- Osho
“Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree, in the midst of them all.”
- Buddha
“By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.”
- Lao Tzu
“Be not the slave of your own past-
plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep,
and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain and overlook the old.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.”
- Abraham Maslow
“If speculation is worthless, why is there so much of it? Is it because people want it? I don’t think so. I myself speculate that media has turned to speculation for media’s own reasons. So now let’s consider the advantages of speculation from a media standpoint.”
“In training you listen to your body. In competition you tell your body to shut up.”
Rich Froning, Jr.
“To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.”
- Alexander Pope
“If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.”
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Jordan Matter is the creative genius behind this incredibly inspiring series, where he took New York dancers all around the city to show them dancing in real life situations and everyday life. Learn more about this project here.
i like my body
by e e cummings
i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite a new thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body. i like what it does,
i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
of your body and its bones, and the trembling
-firm-smooth ness and which I will
again and again and again
kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz
of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes
over parting flesh…And eyes big love-crumbs,
and possibly i like the thrill
of under me you quite so new
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Failure is not falling down, it’s staying down.”
- Renee Yohe
