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Bruce Costa

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Bruce Costa is the author of Welcome To Karate: Unlocking the Wisdom of the Beginners Mind, published by YMAA. This book for beginning karate students is meant to make the challenging practice inviting to newcomers. It has received written praise from dozens of the author’s mentors, and includes a foreword by Grand Master Teruyuki Okazaki himself, under whom Costa has trained since 1980.

Costa is also a passionate teacher, successful entrepreneur, professional speaker, and student of mindfulness meditation in the tradition of Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh, under whom he has studied since 2007. Costa has worked in, presented to, and consulted for various manufacturing, publishing, distribution, and retail industries throughout the United States ...more

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The Education of a Minimum Wage Worker

I’ve always considered Yorktown Seafood my first real job. I’m not quite sure why, as it wasn’t the first job I was paid for, nor the first job I got by gathering up the courage to ask, nor the first time I worked for a stranger. I was 13 and made $1.26 an hour under …

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Average rating: 4.07 · 15 ratings · 5 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Welcome To Karate: Unlocking the Wisdom of the Beginner’s Mind by Bruce Costa (Goodreads Author), Okazaki Teruyuki (Foreword) 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood And Honor (Star Trek Graphic Novel Collection, #106) by Bruce Costa (Goodreads Author), Phil Crain, Aron Eisenberg 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bundle: Genuine Karate 2-book - Learn the History, Techniques, and Secrets of Okinawan Karate - Hermann Bayer, Ph.D and Bruce Costa 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.”
― Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel

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