I followed along Aldous Huxley’s path and started to develop what I jokingly called my Unified Field Theory of Religion. My working hypothesis was that the cosmos was made up of spirit and matter, heaven and earth, and that humans consisted of both elements, a body and a soul, dust and divinity. The mystical experience was what happened when the divine or God or Allah or whatever name you prefer breaks through the mundane in a particular soul and exposes it to the universal spirit. | |
— Matthew Polly | |
From his book: “American Shaolin“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2023 | Who Do You See? |
2022 | Spring Colors |
Decisions, Decisions | |
2021 | In Pursuit |
The Music Of Her Laughter (Lemon Tree) | |
2020 | Close, Sustained And Careful |
2019 | #45: Spread The Fear |
Fear The Beards | |
2018 | Slice, Nick, Cut, Bled |
2017 | Like Most Blogs |
2016 | The Window Left Open |
Free Experience | |
2015 | Reality == Perception / (Times Reported * 10) |
2014 | Tear Da Roof Off Da Sucka |
2013 | Exposed Spirits |
2012 | Ow-ow |
2011 | Focused Relatives |
Posts Tagged ‘American Shaolin’
Exposed Spirits
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Aldous Huxley, American Shaolin, Faith, Matthew Polly, Philosophy, Quotes, Unified Field Theory of Religion on April 15, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Don’t Know And Not Telling
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged American Shaolin, Lao-Tzu, Matthew Polly, Philosophy, Quotes, Talk vs. Knowledge on April 2, 2013| Leave a Comment »
The sayers do not know and the knowers do not say. | |
— Lao-Tzu | |
From: “American Shaolin“; Written by: Matthew Polly | |
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On This Day In: | |
2023 | After You, My Dear |
2022 | I’ve Lost My Share |
2021 | You Decide |
A Dream And The Wind (Sailing) | |
2020 | Making Me |
2019 | Inside Your Head |
2018 | Lingering Curiosity |
2017 | Just Kidding |
2016 | The Danger Of Walls |
2015 | Protection |
2014 | Let It Go |
2013 | Don’t Know And Not Telling |
2012 | A Challenge For Progress |
2011 | Dependent Difficulty |
Bitter Stand
Posted in Leadership, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged American Shaolin, Bitterness, Guanchang Xianxing Ji, Leadership, Matthew Polly, Philosophy, Quotes on March 21, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Only those who have tasted the bitterest of the bitter can become people who stand out among others. | |
— Guanchang Xianxing Ji | |
Found in: “American Shaolin“, by Matthew Polly | |
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On This Day In: | |
2023 | In Good Company |
2022 | One World (Our Only Place)… |
2021 | Move The Heart |
Join Hands (Love Train) | |
2020 | He Broke Even (The Gambler) |
Whoever / Whatever | |
2019 | The Right Anger |
Another P&P Review | |
2018 | Does Fatalism Equal Mental Health? |
2017 | Choice |
2016 | Growing Worlds |
2015 | Change The Tide |
Martyr, n. | |
2014 | You, Too! |
2013 | Bitter Stand |
2012 | Lost For Words |
2011 | On Market Reactions… |
Seeing Heart
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged American Shaolin, Chinese Proverb, Difficulty, Heart, Matthew Polly, Philosophy, Quotes on March 14, 2013| Leave a Comment »
It is only when a person gets into difficulty that one can truly see his heart. | |
— Traditional Chinese Proverb | |
Found in: “American Shaolin“, by Matthew Polly | |
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On This Day In: | |
2023 | Approaching Full Bloom |
For All | |
2022 | Dreading The Slide Towards War |
2021 | Joyous Incompatibility |
My Heart Will Be Waiting (Moondance) | |
2020 | My Gift To You |
2019 | Two Guarantee Freedom |
2018 | Less Mouth And More Back |
2017 | I Ought To Be A Little Careful |
2016 | Rising From The Ashes |
2015 | Honor |
2014 | Disappointment |
2013 | Seeing Heart |
2012 | On Success |
2011 | What This Place Needs Is Another Theory |
Real Heroes
Posted in Movies, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged American Shaolin, Chinese Movies, Dequing, Heroes, Little Tiger, Matthew Polly, On Courage, Philosophy, Quotes on March 7, 2013| Leave a Comment »
“Heroes don’t die in American movies.” | |
“They do in Chinese movies.” | |
“I know, but not in American movies.” | |
“Then they aren’t heroes.” | |
“Why do you say that?” | |
Little Tiger paused to think. “I don’t know. They’re just not.” | |
Feeling like I was on to something important, I pressed. “But why do you think that?” | |
Dequing, [one of the author’s instructors] who had been following the exchange, said, “Because it doesn’t take much courage to fight when you still believe you can win. What takes real courage is to keep fighting when all hope is gone.” | |
— Matthew Polly | |
From his book: “American Shaolin“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2023 | Honor, Balance And Beauty |
2022 | Keep Playing |
2021 | The False Stereotype |
Extraordinary LOVE (L-O-V-E) | |
2020 | Fate, Agency And Dumb Luck |
2019 | You Too Can Choose |
2018 | In Line |
2017 | Just Get It Right |
2016 | In Support Of Common Core |
2015 | Oscillation |
2014 | Truth Shift |
2013 | Real Heroes |
2012 | Controlling The Beast |
2011 | 1,002 |
Learning Bitter
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged American Shaolin, Chinese Proverb, Fools, Learning, Lessons, Matthew Polly, Philosophy, Price, Quotes, Suffering on March 1, 2013| Leave a Comment »
To suffer and learn a lesson, one pays a high price, but a fool can’t learn any other way. | |
— Traditional Chinese Proverb | |
Found in: “American Shaolin“, by Matthew Polly | |
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On This Day In: | |
2023 | Wide And Yawning |
2022 | Where One Goes |
2021 | A Direct Relationship |
Another Night Train South (Can’t You See) | |
2020 | One Person’s Roses… |
2019 | In The Long-Run |
2018 | #NeverAgain |
Doss II | |
Doesn’t / Does | |
2017 | Talent Hates To Move |
2016 | Looking To November |
2015 | It Isn’t The End |
Prospero’s Precepts | |
2014 | Friends |
2013 | Learning Bitter |
2012 | Remembrance, Minstrels & Going Off To War |
May I Have More Happiness, Please? | |
2011 | There Is No God, But God |
2010 | Another Running Book… |