Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Chris Matakas

Quote by Chris Matakas

“There is an opportunity cost for everything we do. This is why we must have the awareness to ensure that what we are pursuing is really what we value, because the pursuit leaves countless lost opportunities in its wake. We choose one experience at the sacrifice of all other experiences.”

Quote by Chris Matakas

Book:The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
Create image

Work

The Tao of Jiu Jitsu

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Chris Matakas

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Chris Matakas. more

You May Also Like

“Jasper would have been completely hidden if it weren't for Highway 17, the crumbling two-lane road that traced the coastline, splitting cypress swamps and tidal creeks edging right up to the 350,000-acre ACE Basin, where three rivers converged to form the largest, wildest estuarine preserve on the East Coast. Jasper bordered the northeast side of the basin where dolphins, gators, minks, otters, and every manner of waterfowl and shore bird prospered from the daily six-foot inflow and outflow of saltwater, freshwater, and brackish water that rose and fell on cue like the sun itself.”

South CarolinaCoastlineJasperOcean LifeEstuary
Book:The Wedding Machine
Create image

“Flammflorbs, archypodsplays, clinker crabs, dorsaldorydabbs, mingslakks, linglimes, occocobbers, firgengobblers, smitesnides, orkusta shelled bunkbarnacles, balootabinks, jorgentua jellyfish, tungol widders, teleosti chimaras, and things stranger, yet to be named, Klubbe and his crew members observed through their portholes, lit by the lamps of their submarine's lanterns.”

Science FictionNonsenseExplorationSubmarineOcean Life
Book:Klubbe the Turkle and the Golden Star Coracle
Create image

“The soul is life, it never touches death. Death is its illusion, its impression, death comes to something which it holds, not to the soul itself. The soul becomes accustomed to identify itself with the body it adopts, with the environment which surrounds it, with the names by which it is known, with its rank and possessions, which are only the outward signs that belong to the world of illusion. The soul absorbed in its childlike fancies, in things that it values and to which it gives importance, and in the beings to which it attaches itself, blinds itself by the veils of its illusion. Thus it covers its own truth with a thousand veils from its own eyes.”

EnlightenmentSpiritual AwakeningSufi WisdomThe SoulHazrat Inayat KhanThe Heart Of Sufism
Book:The Heart of Sufism: Essential Writings of Hazrat Inayat Khan
Create image