Quotes by Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu

Explore a curated collection of 65 quotes by Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

I firmly believe that life will continually try to teach you the same lesson, with increasing pain, until you heed the c — Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
Jiu Jitsu forges friendships in a way I’ve never known. Being involved in an art as intimate as this, where bodily conne — Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
Through Jiu Jitsu I have developed many of the most meaningful relationships in my life, and if that were the only benef — Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
Relationships formed through Jiu Jitsu are deeply rooted in respect for one another, and this is often not the case in m — Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
Jiu Jitsu provides a place of fellowship that, unfortunately, our society has largely failed to create. — Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
It is fellowship, this most fundamental need on our way toward achieving our highest expression of the human experience, — Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
This is the opportunity the fellowship of Jiu Jitsu affords us. To reach our highest potential of self, and then to offe — Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
The point of meditating is not to learn to sit quietly in a room. The point is to live that way in the world. — Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
Thoreau and Huxley calmly state what I have spent years trying to articulate, and never found the words for doing so. To — Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
Quotes tell a story. A stringing together of a few words can leave you with an idea that changes the course of your life — Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
Words make the intangible aspects of human experience communicable, and a single sentence can shatter our world view and — Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
Life is easier lived when lived for others. — Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
Jiu Jitsu gives each of us something that no other sport can. We have the opportunity to become truly great regardless o — Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
We seek to understand Jiu Jitsu as a vehicle to understand ourselves. We have different explicit goals, from getting in — Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
Jiu Jitsu is meant to serve us, not the other way around. It is meant to make you more of whatever it is you already are — Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
If Jiu Jitsu does not make you a better father, son, mother, daughter, wife or husband, you are missing the point. If Ji — Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
Jiu Jitsu has shown me that we are not confined to the lot which we inherit. We are not bound to these fetters eternally — Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
I wanted to get to the most essential aspect of my being, and look around for a while. I wanted to explore what I am in — Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
Thoreau went to the woods. I went to the mats. — Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
We call it training. Not because we are training for Jiu Jitsu. We are training for life. — Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu