THE RADIANT ONE INSIDE ME HAS NEVER SAID A WORD. RUMI
RAMAMA MAHARSHI & RUMI WOULD AGREE the joy of being human is in uncovering the core we already are — the treasure buried in the ruin. COLEMAN BARKS
I ALWAYS PREFERRED COMPOSERS WHO GAVE ME TENDERNESS. Music is an affective language, a poetic language. in music there is everything — nature, emotion, love, revolt, dreams; it’s like a spiritual food. COLETTE MAZE 109
IN A TIME OF UNIVERSAL DECEIT P– TELLING THE TRUTH IS A REVOLUTIONARY ACT. GEORGE ORWELL
JUDGE NOTHING, you will be happy.
forgive everything, you will be happier.
LOVE everything, you will be happiest. SRI CHINOY
CHOOSE your leaders with wisdom & forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
TO be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself & those you love into slavery.
OCTAVIA E. SPENCER
JOSEPH PILATES 1883-1967–“Pilates Return to life through Contrology”.
ABOVE ALL LEARN TO BREATHE CORRECTLY.
GOOD POSTURE can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body isn under perfect control.
WHEN all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort & maximum pleasure.
TO ACHIEVE the highest accomplishments within the scope of our capabilities in all walks of life we must constantly strive to acquire strong, healthy bodies & develop our minds to the limits of our ability.
THROUGH THE PILATES METHOD OF BODY CONDITIONING this unique trinity of a balanced body, mind & spirit can ever be attained. Self-confidence follows.
PHYSICAL FITNESS can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase.
PHYSICAL FITNESS IS THE FIRST REQUISITE OF HAPPINESS.
I MUST BE RIGHT. Never an aspirin. Never injured a day in my life. The whole country, the whole world, should be doing my exercises. they’d be happier.
CONCENTRATE on the correct movements each time you exercise, lest you do them improperly & thus lose all the vital benefits of their value.
TRUE FLEXIBILITY CAN BE ACHIEVED ONLY WHEN ALL MUSCLES ARE UNIFORMLY DEVELOPED.
THE PILATES METHOD OF BODY CONDITIONING is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control of your body.
BEFORE any real benefit can be derived from physical exercises, one must first learn how to breathe properly. Our very life depends on it.
IT IS THE MIND THAT SHAPES THE BODY.
YOU MUST squeeze every atom of impure air from lungs until they are almost as free of air as a vacuum.
MAN should develop his physical condition simultaneously with that of his mind.
IT is better to be tired from physical exertion that to be fatigued by the ‘poisons’ generated by nervousness while lying awake.
IT IS THE MIND ITSELF WHICH BUILDS THE BODY.
BY EXERCISING YOUR STOMACH MUSCLES, you wring out the body, you don’t catch colds, you don’t get cancer, you don’t get hernias. Do animals get hernias? Do animals go on diets?
IDEALLY, our muscles should obey our will. Reasonably our will should not be dominated by the reflex actions of our muscles.
WE retire too early & we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70’s & old age should not come until we are almost 100.
YOU’RE ONLY AS OLD AS YOUR SPINE.
NORMAL MUSCLES should function naturally in much the same manner as do the muscles of animals.