Quote: If I had to choose between loving you, and breathing. I would use my last breath to say I LOVE YOU.
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Commitment is an act of acknowledging who you are and what you stand for.
It is right up the top of your personal list of values that structure how you live your life. You may have these values written or you may just live them without realising from day to day. Commitment is where truth, honesty and integrity are born, commitment is your word, its strong and powerful, it does not need a legal contract it comes from the heart and deep down we all know the truth.
The reality of the brief moment that we all share together come crashing down in front of me yesterday.
For a brief moment I forgot all of my own ideas, troubles, pre –occupations, my own little world did not exist. For a brief moment the life and death struggle of another human being that I had never known or met before became the absolute focus of my life and the focus of the lives of others who were also involved.
tags | courage, ego, human
Sorry team, it just does not cut it! Ask yourself another question. Am I just being lazy??
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Martial Artist view on self defence
Martial arts is well renowned as a great way to learn self defence but how to you think it really stacks up. With so many reality fighting contests martial arts has been put through the pressure test. Read more…
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People everywhere seek peace, happiness and freedom from life’s entanglements – without realising that what they seek is already within themselves. Read more…
It is with embarrassment that I have to own up to this. I’m discovering my latent “green thumb”, so have been working out in the garden tending the patch which is a little bigger than a postage stamp, but by no means an organic mecca. Must say though, since I have begun tilling my own soil and I can really notice the quality and taste of the food.
So there I was, digging manure and spreading fertiliser, preparing the ground for some lettuce, broccoli an carrots, my mind really just focusing on the task at hand. Finishing off, I neatly stacked my tools against the side of the shed and went and filled my watering can, just doing the finishing touches. Read more…
tags | Awareness, focus, present, Self Defence, Self Discipline, Self RespectIt costs nothing and it is so easy to give. Just takes a little practice. You can choose to be kind and you can put kindness first in all action. Kindness is at the heart of loving, loving self, loving others, loving life.
tags | heart, Kindness, Loving
What is taking the space?
We often here the phrase, “taking the space”. Taken literally it can mean to see an opportunity where nothing exists and then taking up residence in that void. May be even as simple as taking the spare parking space, or moving into an area in a crowded room that has not been taken up. or say in Read more…
tags | harmony, Peace, relaxation, space![shinbudo_collage[1] shinbudo_collage[1]](http://modernmartialartist.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/shinbudo_collage11-300x169.jpg)
Welcome to my new Blog. I am just getting started so hang in there for heaps of great info.
Andy…
tags | diet, fitness, Grading, health, martial arts, meditation, Sparring


