Thoughts of Courage, Comfort, and Compassion for the MMA Fighter

"He who joyfully fights and marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.” - Albert Einstein

"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist in our helper.” - Edmund Burke

"The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.” - Marcus Aurelius Antonius

"Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence.” - Nikola Tesla

"To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.” - Sun Tzu

"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.” - Napoleon Bonaparte

"I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.” - Sylvia Pankhurst

"If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result is victory, then you must not fight, even at the ruler's bidding.” - Sun Tzu

"To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions” - George Santayana

“A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.” - Bruce Lee

"The quality of a man's fighting technique depends on his fighting footwork. For one cannot use his hands or kicks efficiently until his feet have put him in the desired position." - Bruce Lee

"During sparring, a sparring partner is constantly on the move to make his opponent misjudge his distance, while being quite certain of his own fighting distance." - Bruce Lee

"All goals apart from the means are illusions. Becoming is a denial of being." - Bruce Lee

"Action is our relationship to everything. Action is not a matter of right and wrong. It is only when action is partial that there is a right and a wrong." - Bruce Lee

“Comfort” is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being “comfortable.” -Vivekananda

“Face the brutes.” That is a lesson for all life—face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them. -Vivekananda

“The earth is enjoyed by heroes”—this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.” -Vivekananda

All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. -Vivekananda

All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls. -Vivekananda

Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet. -Vivekananda

Anything that is secret and mysterious in these systems of yoga should be at once rejected. The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it. -Vivekananda

Be strong! … You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair." None but the bravest deserves salvation. - Vivekananda

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson

Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
- Thomas Jefferson

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
- Thomas Jefferson

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.
- Thomas Jefferson

Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes--none knows whence--and cannot explain itself.
- Mark Twain

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein

“The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.” - Ouspensky

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
- Kahlil Gibran

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
- Kahlil Gibran

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. - Kahlil Gibran

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. - Khalil Gibran

As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. - Proverbs 27:12

Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. - Alan Watts

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. - Alan Watts

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together. - Alan Watts

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying. - Ram Dass

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody. - Ram Dass

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible. - Ram Dass

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. - Krishnamurti

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man. - Krishnamurti

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom. - Krishnamurti

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
Friedrich Nietzsche

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence. - Robert Anton Wilson

Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission. - Robert Anton Wilson

The shock of discovering that most of the power in the world is held by ignorant and greedy people can really bum you out at first; but after you've lived with it a few decades, it becomes, like cancer and other plagues, just another problem that we will solve eventually if we keep working at it. - Robert Anton Wilson

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? - Khalil Gibran

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