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The Power and the Grace: A Professional's Guide to Ease and Efficiency in Functional Movement by Joanne Elphinston

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Ask yourself, either when you are teaching another or practicing yourself: where should the impulse for this movement spring from?

“The cycle of life runs in actuality from disability to temporary ability back to disability, and that only if you are among the most fortunate.”
― Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

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“Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face—at least to my taste—his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide the soul.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

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“Whenever there was a concept or learning technique that I related to in a manner too abstract to convey, I forced myself to break it down into the incremental steps with which I got there.”
― Josh Waitzkin, The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance

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“Companionship drives focus into the now”
― Steven Kotler, The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance

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“But all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do -- remember that -- and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavors to persuade. And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.”
― Herman Melville

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