Moshe Feldenkrais quotes

Make the impossible possible, the possible easy, the easy elegant. (Moshe Feldenkrais)
Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself. View quote
Moshe Feldenkrais
What you truly learn best will appear to you later as your own discovery. View quote
Moshe Feldenkrais
I believe that the unity of mind and body is an objective reality. They are not just parts somehow related to each other, but an inseparable whole while functioning. A brain without a body could not think. View quote
Moshe Feldenkrais
Movement is life; without movement life is unthinkable. View quote
Moshe Feldenkrais
Ultimately, we become aware of most of what is going on within us mainly through the muscles. View quote
Moshe Feldenkrais
In order to change our mode of action, we must change the image of ourselves that we carry within us. View quote
Moshe Feldenkrais
Nothing is permanent about our behavior patterns except our belief that they are so. View quote
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Find your true weakness and surrender to it. Therein lies the path to genius. Most people spend their lives using their strengths to overcome or cover up their weaknesses. Those few who use their strengths to incorporate their weaknesses, who don't divide themselves, those people are very rare. In any generation there are a few and they lead their generation. View quote
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Our breathing reflects every emotional or physical effort and every disturbance. View quote
Moshe Feldenkrais
Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated action. (Moshe Feldenkrais)
People confound, misuse, interchange thinking and speaking, not realizing that speaking is for communication and thinking is for action. View quote
Moshe Feldenkrais
No matter how closely we look, it is difficult to find a mental act that can take place without the support of some physical function. View quote
Moshe Feldenkrais