B. J. Palmer Quotes

We need a coat with two pockets. In one pocket there is dust, and in the other pocket there is gold. We need a coat with two pockets to remind us who we are.

When you trust people to help you, they often do.

Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.

I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.

It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.

Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.

To be specific, is to exhibit a knowledge of the principles and art of adjusting; a comprehension of facts so systematized that they are available for the relief of disease.

How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.

You have to be honest, have integrity, be able to cooperate and get along with other people. Sigma Chi is a great place to learn that and that's why it's a great thing to join this fraternity.

I am against making golf courses obsolete, going to the national Open and playing half the holes with a one-iron.

Don't let anyone or anything rob you of the beauty and meaning at the heart of life. It's your birthright gift.

I am sometimes more doubt than man.

You know what’s really cool? Wake up every morning, decide what you feel like doing, and do it.

For me, teaching is about weaving a web of connectedness between myself, my students, the subject I'm teaching, and the larger world.

Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?

When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand. And you feel stupid doing it.

I'm a great thief. I like to lift stuff and play it better. The real trick is taking whatever you've stolen and trying to do something different with it.

Here is a philosophy of boldness to take advantage of every tiny opening toward victory.

Is the life I'm living the life that wants to live in me?

As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.

The challenge is to just focus on what's actually happening, focus on the people who get it, and focus on the people who are listening.

The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.

I suspect that a lot of the stress we see around us arises from the cognitive dissonance set up by one side of the brain hearing very plausible spin while the other side knows it just ain't so.

I used to come to practice and go through the motions. I don't do that anymore. I look forward to practices. I even enjoy the windsprints.

The perfect tools aren't going to help us if we can't face each other and give and receive fearlessly, but more important, to ask without shame.

Facility is an obstacle to any creativeness. In any art form. You get a nice effect without effort, sometimes by accident, and you're satisfied; but there's nothing substantial underneath.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

Connection and connectedness are other words for community and communion.

It seems to me the charm of etching is the glimmering through of the white paper even in the shadows so that almost everything sparkles or suggest sparkles.

I hate being ignored.

I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

I still get laughed at but it doesn't bother me, I'm just so glad to hear laughter around me.

Sam Snead will fly anywhere in my plane with me. Sam's not as worried about the danger as he is about saving money.

The only thing Earl (Weaver) knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it.

I think today's athletes generally are spoiled by what's happened to salaries, but I also think that golfers have maintained the best demeanor of any sport.

It's a mean old world, but its up to us to make it heaven, here and now.

I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.

Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life.

Hit it hard, go find it and hit it hard again.

But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.

Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time.

Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of the people in a land of freedom.

You learn from the good, you learn from the bad.

By choosing integrity, I become more whole, but wholeness does not mean perfection. It means becoming more real by acknowledging the whole of who I am.

Grief causes suffering and disease.

The winters will drive you crazy until you learn to get out into them.

I am not sure that any sight or sound on earth is as exquisite as the hushed descent of a sky full of snow.

The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.

Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.