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the mind can go either direction under stress — toward positive or toward negative: on or off. think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. the way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.

frank herbert dune

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Hill of Buddha

Sapporo, Japan

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Statue of Shibata Katsuie the great warrior located in Shibata Shrine in Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture. 柴田勝家の像。柴田神社 福井県福井市に鎮座します。 

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It is difficulties that reveal what men amount to; and so, whenever you’re struck by a difficulty, remember that God, like a trainer in the gymnasium, has matched you against a tough young opponent. ‘For what purpose?’, someone asks. So that you may become an Olympic victor; and that is something that can’t be achieved without sweat.

Epictetus, Discourses (Book 1, 24)  (via senecasredoubt)

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Lady Bushi Training in Park

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The strength of a person’s spirit would then be measured by how much ‘truth’ he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (via philosophybits)

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Old Warriors Armor Exhibition (Part VI)

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Kuroda Sensei Iaido performance.  Very Very fast action

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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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If our citizens are from their youth upward … unused to endure amid the temptations of pleasure, and are not disciplined to refrain from all things evil, then the sweet feeling of pleasure will overcome them … One half of their souls will be a slave, the other half free; and they will not be worthy to be called in the true sense men and freemen.

Plato (via westdesertsage)

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When I see a man in a state of anxiety, I say, What can this man want? If he did not want something which is not in his power, how could he still be anxious?

Epictetus, (55 – 135 C.E.) Greco-Roman Stoic Philosopher (via panatmansam)

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we are all innocent in the beginning, which just means that neither we nor anyone else recognizes the evil of our own natures: the evil arises only with motives, and we only come to recognize the motives in time. Ultimately, we come to recognize ourselves as quite different from what we imagined ourselves to be … and we are often frightened by ourselves.

Arthur Schopenhauer. The World as Will and Representation vol.1 §55 (via old-glory)

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Aikido Master Moriteru Ueshiba in his dōjō in Tōkyō, October 2013. Photo © Flavio Gallozzi - All rights reserved.

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