silence dohood

Something knocks you down, you need to learn to get up. One way to forget about pain is to do something you'll be in completely.

If he comes to you, greet him. If he leaves, send him on his way.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.

Love the discipline you know, and let it support you. Entrust everything willingly to the gods, and then make your way through life — no one's master and no one's slave.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

Train jiu jitsu. People who are in jiu jitsu and train on a regular basis are healthier people. Their egos are healthier. Especially men. They are easier to talk to. They are easier to hang out with because they are facing reality on a regular basis. Something my taekwondo teacher told me when I was a little kid that I never forgot was that martial arts are a vehicle for developing your human potential and nothing in my life has ever put me reality in my face better than jiu jitsu. I think in life we can distort our perception of things to make ourselves accept where we are and there are a lot of people that are running around life full of shit. You can’t be full of shit when you do jiu jitsu. When you do jiu jitsu it is impossible to be full of shit because reality comes at you in the purest form possible - a life or death struggle using your determination, your focus, your techniques, and your mind in your training, over, over, over and over again. It is reality and if you fuck up and you get caught in a triangle you have got to tap and that is the end of story. It is as real as can get and that has made me a better person. It has made me a better man. It has made me understand myself. My weaknesses. My strengths. The shit I need to work on. Jiu jitsu has been one of the most valuable tools that I have ever had in my life. That’s it.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely - lay your life before him.

Before you speak, let you words pass through three gates. At the first gate, ask yourself, 'Is it true?' At the second gate ask, 'Is it necessary?' At the third gate ask, 'Is it kind?'

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

A wet man does not fear the rain.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you.