Rob McNamara > Quotes

“The fundamental problem here is the continued over-identification with doing. By attempting to “do” The Leap, the practitioner is attempting the impossible (as doing and being point to two different realms). Thus far your training has been largely if not entirely immersed in the relative domain. With Being, your training is stepping beyond this domain into the transcendent. Fundamentally, there is nothing you can “do” to “be.”
― McNamara, Robert, Strength to Awaken

“Engagement is the conscious inhabitation of your body and mind. Practice is happening when your open awareness is moving with, in and through your embodied activity. Intrinsic to practice is your conscious participation with your life. Engagement is the conduction of your free and open awareness through your activities, whatever they may be.”
― McNamara, Robert, Strength to Awaken

“Without awakening to your deeper calling, you will have choice without grace, intention without inspiration, ability without necessity.”
― Rob McNamara, Strength To Awaken: Make Strength Training Your Spiritual Practice and Find New Power and Purpose in Your Life

“Ultimately the quality of your life depends upon your relationship to the present moment.”
― Rob McNamara, Strength To Awaken: Make Strength Training Your Spiritual Practice and Find New Power and Purpose in Your Life

“Learning more information is not the same as development. Learning is a wonderful way to enrich, change and progress”
― Rob McNamara, The Elegant Self: A Radical Approach to Personal Evolution for Greater Influence In Life

“Engaging wholeheartedly involves three elements: intention, attunement and engagement. Intention is the first of two inner movements necessary for engaging wholeheartedly. Your intention is an aligning of your willpower and a clarifying of your attention which prepares you to take action. This can all be done without actually moving your body, thus it is an inner movement. The second inner movement, attunement, cultivates a relationship with what is present. Finally, engagement brings outer action as your body-mind takes action. To engage wholeheartedly you must yoke together and integrate these three elements into your training. We will begin by exploring intention and walk our way through each of the central components of engaging wholeheartedly.”
― Rob McNamara, Strength To Awaken: Make Strength Training Your Spiritual Practice and Find New Power and Purpose in Your Life

“Abraham Maslow, once said, “If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”
― Rob McNamara, Strength To Awaken: Make Strength Training Your Spiritual Practice and Find New Power and Purpose in Your Life

“just as you had some growing up to do in adolescence, we all have some growing up to do in adulthood as well.”
― Rob McNamara, The Elegant Self: A Radical Approach to Personal Evolution for Greater Influence In Life

“Something timeless inside of me wants an aliveness that is brought to the fore with exertion.”
― Rob McNamara, Strength To Awaken: Make Strength Training Your Spiritual Practice and Find New Power and Purpose in Your Life

“Here is the central point for you. Your ego has a certain range of tension in which it flourishes. Too little tension dissolves the basic struggle with what is and thus threatens the ego’s fundamental position. Your ego’s lower boundary is where your ego habitually introduces struggle and tension. Similarly, too much tension starts to rub up against the ego’s attachment to being comfortable. At a certain level of intensity your body-mind must become incredibly centered and focused in the present moment. As a result your conventional construction of past and future start to break down into an immediacy of the present moment in which your ego’s grip on control dissolves. The ego’s upper boundary is found where ego habitually disengages from high levels of tension.”
― Rob McNamara, Strength To Awaken: Make Strength Training Your Spiritual Practice and Find New Power and Purpose in Your Life

“Ultimately strength training is a microcosm of the macrocosm of your life. How you train reflects how you live the rest of your life. For the millions trapped in conventional forms of strength training, they are also trapped in the conventional egoic habituations of day-to-day life. As a result, most people go through both their workouts and life wanting something else, desiring something else and rejecting what is right here and now in favor of some imagined future or recaptured past, neither of which actually exists.”
― Rob McNamara, Strength To Awaken: Make Strength Training Your Spiritual Practice and Find New Power and Purpose in Your Life

“When you stop being present emotionally and/or mentally, you lose part of your strength.”
― Rob McNamara, Strength To Awaken: Make Strength Training Your Spiritual Practice and Find New Power and Purpose in Your Life