{"quotes":[{"text":"On Ryukyu islands, the expert Kara-te practitioners, used their skills to subdue, control and generally teach bullies A lesson, rather than severely injure or kill their attackers. They knew full well the consequences of their actions and the trail of blood and retribution that would ensue.","author":"Soke Behzad Ahmadi","tags":["attacker","avenge","blood","budoka","bully","bushido","chin-na","consequences-life-lessons","control","culture","expert","familiarity-and-attitude","families","folklore","grapplinf-tudi","history","injury","karate","kenpo","kill","killing","kin","martial-arts","master","opportunity","people","pkinawa","punching","quotes","reaction","ryukyu","seize","sensei","shinshii","shorinjiryu","teach-a-lesson","technique","torite","warrior"],"id":1327,"author_id":"Soke+Behzad+Ahmadi"},{"text":"There is no such thing as a fair fight.","author":"Bohdi Sanders","tags":["bohdi-sanders","fair-fight","fair-fight-spirit","fight","fighting","fighting-spirit","martial-arts"],"id":8752,"author_id":"Bohdi+Sanders"},{"text":"A balanced diet” is not so much about protein/fat/carbohydrate ratios. The real ratios to consider, at least for the typical American or European, are energy consumption/expenditure, pleasure/actual need, food/everything else.","author":"Darrell Calkins","tags":["asian-philosophy","buddhism","cobalt-saffron-retreat","cobaltsaffron","cobaltsaffron-retreat","comparative-religion","compassion","conscience","creativity","curiosity","darrell-calkins","darrell-calkins-cobalt-saffron","darrell-calkins-cobaltsaffron","darrell-calkins-retreat","darrell-calkins-seminar","emotional-health","evolution","happiness","humor","inspiration","intuition","martial-arts","metaphysics","mysticism","paradigm","physical-health","purpose","quantum-physics","stress-management","taoism","truth","well-being","zen"],"id":8879,"author_id":"Darrell+Calkins"},{"text":"Unfortunately, religion often works to shrink and tame the very wild and mysterious forces that first drew our wonder. In the process of making the inexplicable safe for the masses, the possibilities for real illusion-piercing insight becomes reduced. One might say that they are only available to those who dare to ride the breaking crest of direct life-altering experience.","author":"Stephen K. Hayes","tags":["budo","life","martial-arts","ninja","philosophy","religion"],"id":11364,"author_id":"Stephen+K.+Hayes"},{"text":"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.","author":"Chris Matakas","tags":["confidence","faith","growth","jiu-jitsu","martial-arts","process","systems"],"id":14893,"author_id":"Chris+Matakas"},{"text":"Real Martial Arts is Mathematics, Physics, Poetry; Meditation in Action.","author":"Soke Behzad Ahmadi","tags":["action","buddha","budo","combat-training","karate","kenpo","martial-arts","mathematics","meditation","okinawa","physics","poetry","real","sensei","shorinjiryu","wisdom"],"id":16913,"author_id":"Soke+Behzad+Ahmadi"},{"text":"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.","author":"Bruce Lee","tags":["be-like-water","bruce-lee","changes","evolve","find-your-way","fluid","growth","jewels-for-the-mind","knowledge","lee","martial-arts","philosophy","water","wisdom"],"id":18163,"author_id":"Bruce+Lee"},{"text":"If you’re 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 relentless worker is just as lazy as the typical indulgent idler; they’re both just going through the habitual motions. To break the repetitive pattern, and discover more energy and effectiveness, one simply must stretch out in all directions, rotating focus and application of the qualities that make up one’s natural versatility.","author":"Darrell Calkins","tags":["asian-philosophy","buddhism","cobalt-saffron-retreat","cobaltsaffron","cobaltsaffron-retreat","comparative-religion","compassion","conscience","creativity","curiosity","darrell-calkins","darrell-calkins-cobalt-saffron","darrell-calkins-cobaltsaffron","darrell-calkins-retreat","darrell-calkins-seminar","emotional-health","evolution","happiness","humor","inspiration","intuition","martial-arts","metaphysics","mysticism","paradigm","physical-health","purpose","quantum-physics","stress-management","taoism","truth","versatility","well-being","zen"],"id":19637,"author_id":"Darrell+Calkins"},{"text":"Recovery through sleep isn’t going to happen if the majority of the components of your being aren’t getting enough stimulation or resistance to work against. Your brain may be tired after work, but if your body and emotions haven’t been challenged through the day, they’re going to keep irritating you even if you’re asleep. They don’t need rest; they need work for real recovery to take place.","author":"Darrell Calkins","tags":["anxiety","asian-philosophy","buddhism","cobalt-saffron-retreat","cobaltsaffron","cobaltsaffron-retreat","comparative-religion","compassion","conscience","creativity","curiosity","darrell-calkins","darrell-calkins-cobalt-saffron","darrell-calkins-cobaltsaffron","darrell-calkins-retreat","darrell-calkins-seminar","emotional-health","evolution","happiness","humor","inspiration","intuition","martial-arts","metaphysics","mysticism","paradigm","physical-health","purpose","quantum-physics","stress","stress-management","taoism","truth","well-being","zen"],"id":21728,"author_id":"Darrell+Calkins"},{"text":"Well-being, or wholeness, implies integrity and harmony between all existing elements, providing freedom for the whole.","author":"Darrell Calkins","tags":["asian-philosophy","buddhism","cobalt-saffron-retreat","cobaltsaffron","cobaltsaffron-retreat","comparative-religion","compassion","conscience","creativity","curiosity","darrell-calkins","darrell-calkins-cobalt-saffron","darrell-calkins-cobaltsaffron","darrell-calkins-retreat","darrell-calkins-seminar","emotional-health","evolution","happiness","health","humor","inspiration","intuition","martial-arts","metaphysics","mysticism","paradigm","physical-health","purpose","quantum-physics","stress","stress-management","taoism","truth","well-being","zen"],"id":24526,"author_id":"Darrell+Calkins"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":164,"pages":17,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}