Chris Matakas Quotes
Our social contract is becoming an exchange of free thought for mindless stimuli.
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.
Properly directed thoughts result in properly directed actions. The only way to appropriately guide our thoughts is to know their foundation, our values.
A life of joy awaits the man who sits alone quietly in a room and determines what he himself believes rather than simply adopting the values of another.
A man has only so much life, and must diversify his efforts according to his values.
It was my letting go that gave me a better hold.
The possessions themselves were not the problem, it was my relationship with possessing.
The greatest effects we have on the world are the ones we can never see.
I have always found that effort is most easily produced when performed for the benefit of something external to ourselves.
As a human being, I know of no greater example of success than someone who is self-sustaining through using his passion in the service of others.
You have been blessed to stand on the shoulders of giants. Make sure that someone stands on yours as well. This is the only way of human progress.
The most fulfilled among us are those who serve others.
Life is always easier when lived for others, and living for others is the best way I know to live for yourself.
There is no higher calling than the service of your fellow man, and to do so through your own personal mastery of a craft is a gift enjoyed by few.
I believe the devil exists in those little, seemingly unnoticeable moments when we choose to value our own insecurities over the service of others.
I have found the more worthwhile something is, the more of your life is required to achieve it.
Mastery, to whatever degree your circumstance allows, is determined by a handful of choices repeated daily.
Mastery lies on an infinite continuum, and as a result we will never reach the end. We can, however, see to it that we are as far along that continuum as our circumstance allows.
Your progress as a Jiu Jitsu practitioner is a direct reflection of the standards you have for yourself.
Empathy is a breaking down of the false constructs of division between the observer and the observed.
The secular world often finds its constituents disenfranchised and solitary as it has spent a great deal of time debating the religious community while failing to build a true community of its own.
We are only different because there exists something to be different from, and it is this difference that bonds us.
Anyone who has ever achieved anything has been a steward of his potential.
An intelligent consistency is the foundation of genius.
I have never been as alive or awake as I have been through Jiu Jitsu.
Life is a constant build up and release of tension. If we go too far in either direction bad things happen.
We can lose the roll, we can lose position, but we can constantly strive to win the moment.
The more closely two organisms depend upon each other the harder it becomes to tell where one organism ends and the other begins.
Anyone can be tough for a season. It takes a special kind of human to rise to life's challenges for a lifetime.
It is a shock to many college graduates that their segway into the real world is one of obligation, profound debt, and countless sacrifices of the soul.
Our most valuable victories are those which go without praise.