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change your body, change the world
exuberant animals at play
philosophy and practice of natural fitness
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"Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly."
Epictetus
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“…I see that everything in nature arises from the power of free play sloshing against the power of limits.”
Stephen NachmanovitchFree Play:Improvisation in Life and Art
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"Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play."
Herodotus, Greek historian
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"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich."
Sarah Bernhardt
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"Creators ultimately don't care about genres or techniques or disciplines except as these things can be used as instruments of vision."
John Briggs
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"Pleasure is power."Kay Redfield JamisonExuberance
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“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”
Nietzsche:
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“Coordination is the quality which enables the individual to integrate all the powers and capabilities of his whole organism into an effective doing of an act.”
Bruce Lee
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photo courtesy Stuart Brown MD, National Institute for Play
"Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness."
May Sarton
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"Play is the exultation of the possible."Martin Buber
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"The Universe is constituted to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly to conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. The geometry of life is designed to keep us on the crux between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos."
George Leonard
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"Genius is childhood recalled at will."
Charles Baudelaire
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"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play."
Arnold Toynbee
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Concentration is the secret of strength.
R.W. Emerson
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There is a beast in man that should be exercised, not exorcised.
A.S. LaVey
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wild dogs: Kruger National Park, South Africa
“We play because we have an exuberance of spirits and energy, but we are also exuberant because we play.”
Kay Redfield Jamison
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"A creature that once knows the pleasure of play will derive satisfaction from it even when youth is gone."
Karl Groos The Play of Animals
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"We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones."
Henry David Thoreau
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"I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox."
Oscar Wilde
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“Whatever you can do, or think you can, begin it.Boldness has power, and genius,and magic in it.”
Goethe
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“Animals that play together tend to stay together.”
Mark Bekhoff
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Produced by the primal scholar with special thanks to Lauren Muney, Kwame Brown, Sebastien Alary and the Barefoot Sensei.
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