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We call it training. Not because we are training for Jiu Jitsu. We are training for life.

We call it training. Not because we are training for Jiu Jitsu. We are training for life.
– Chris Matakas

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  2. Jiu Jitsu provides a place of fellowship that, unfortunately, our society has largely failed to create. – Chris Matakas
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Jiu Jitsu is the vehicle. Not the road. – Chris Matakas
  6. 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
  7. For the sincere student, it mustn’t be enough to simply understand Jiu Jitsu. We must seek to understand ourselves. – Chris Matakas
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. Your progress as a Jiu Jitsu practitioner is a direct reflection of the standards you have for yourself. – Chris Matakas
  12. What if you spent some alone time every morning? Call it prayer. Call it planning. Call it centering. I call it a powerful way to begin the day. – Steve Goodier
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  15. As your training moves from base training to more intense work, to tapering, your nutrition needs to change. – Charlotte Campbell
  16. I firmly believe that life will continually try to teach you the same lesson, with increasing pain, until you heed the call. – Chris Matakas
  17. If something’s existence is contingent upon the existence of another entity, can we truthfully call them separate beings? – Chris Matakas
  18. I must go down to the sea again, for the call of the running tide, is a wild call and a clear call, that cannot be denied! – John Masefield
  19. Call it sentimentality. Call it curiosity. Just don’t call it madness. – Megan Shepherd
  20. We are free to live the life we have imagined, not the life imagined for us. – Chris Matakas
  21. Life is easier lived when lived for others. – Chris Matakas
  22. No one’s life will be harder because I exist. – Chris Matakas
  23. No one’s life will be harder because I exist. – Chris Matakas
  24. The quality of your life is directly proportional to the positive effect you have on others’ lives. – Chris Matakas
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  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. A man has only so much life, and must diversify his efforts according to his values. – Chris Matakas
  29. I have found the more worthwhile something is, the more of your life is required to achieve it. – Chris Matakas
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  31. I would more appropriately define mastery as the technical ability possible within the constraints of your particular existence. – Chris Matakas
  32. I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it. – Chris Matakas
  33. The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance. – Chris Matakas
  34. Do not get caught pursuing the goals of who you used to be instead of who you are. – Chris Matakas
  35. The more specifically you define your goals the more attainable they become. – Chris Matakas
  36. We strive toward the middle, and we run from ourselves. – Chris Matakas
  37. Language has created a barrier that prevents us from seeing existence as it truly is. – Chris Matakas
  38. We tend to view ourselves as this, lying in contradiction with everything that is not ourselves, that. – Chris Matakas
  39. If we do not master ourselves, we will be a slave to ourselves. – Chris Matakas
  40. Mastery, to whatever degree your circumstance allows, is determined by a handful of choices repeated daily. – Chris Matakas

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