
It was my letting go that gave me a better hold.
– 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
- Jiu Jitsu is the vehicle. Not the road. – Chris Matakas
- I would more appropriately define mastery as the technical ability possible within the constraints of your particular existence. – Chris Matakas
- Thoreau went to the woods. I went to the mats. – Chris Matakas
- For the sincere student, it mustn’t be enough to simply understand Jiu Jitsu. We must seek to understand ourselves. – Chris Matakas
- I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it. – Chris Matakas
- 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
- In mastering one thing, you have mastered all things because you have learned how to learn. – Chris Matakas
- Freedom from the thinking mind is our underlying goal for most of human activity. – Chris Matakas
- The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance. – Chris Matakas
- No one’s life will be harder because I exist. – Chris Matakas
- The quality of your life is directly proportional to the positive effect you have on others’ lives. – Chris Matakas
- 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
- A core group of guys, all sharing similar goals, can move mountains. – Chris Matakas
- Do not get caught pursuing the goals of who you used to be instead of who you are. – Chris Matakas
- The more specifically you define your goals the more attainable they become. – Chris Matakas
- 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
- We strive toward the middle, and we run from ourselves. – Chris Matakas
- A saw by itself holds no value, but when coupled with your labor can clear forests. – Chris Matakas
- Language has created a barrier that prevents us from seeing existence as it truly is. – Chris Matakas
- 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
- 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
- We tend to view ourselves as this, lying in contradiction with everything that is not ourselves, that. – Chris Matakas
- We are never truly ourselves as we are mid-roll. – Chris Matakas
- 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
- A man has only so much life, and must diversify his efforts according to his values. – Chris Matakas
- If we do not master ourselves, we will be a slave to ourselves. – Chris Matakas
- Mastery does not exist. – Chris Matakas
- Mastery, to whatever degree your circumstance allows, is determined by a handful of choices repeated daily. – Chris Matakas
