Moshe Feldenkrais Quotes

• Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Quality, Movement, Life Is

  Moshe Feldenkrais (2011). “Embodied Wisdom: The Collected Papers of Moshe Feldenkrais”, p.11, North Atlantic Books

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• Make the impossible possible, the possible easy, the easy elegant.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Impossible, Easy, Elegant

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• Nothing is permanent about our behavior patterns except our belief that they are so.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Patterns, Belief, Behavior

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• My purpose is to allow people to move closer to actually being creatures of free choice, to genuinely reflect individual creativity and emotion, freeing the body of habitual tensions and wired-patterns of behaviour so that it may respond without inhibition to do what the person wants.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Moving, Creativity, Reflection

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• In order to change our mode of action, we must change the image of ourselves that we carry within us.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Order, Action

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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.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Lying, People, Weakness

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• In order to recognize small changes in effort, the effort itself must first be reduced. More delicate and improved control of movement is possible only through the increase of sensitivity, through a greater ability to sense differences.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Small Changes, Order, Breathing

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• 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.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Believe, Reality, Thinking

  Moshe Feldenkrais (2011). “Embodied Wisdom: The Collected Papers of Moshe Feldenkrais”, p.28, North Atlantic Books

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• Our breathing reflects every emotional or physical effort and every disturbance.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Emotional, Breathing, Effort

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• Movement is life; without movement life is unthinkable.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Movement, Life Is, Unthinkable

  Moshé Feldenkrais (1984). “The master moves”, Meta Pubns

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• If I hold a twenty pound weight, I cannot detect a fly landing on it because the least detectable difference in the stimulus is half a pound. On the other hand, if i hold a feather, a fly landing on it makes a great difference. Obviously then, in order to be able to tell the differences in exertion one must first reduce the exertion. Finer and finer performance is possible only if the sensitivity, that is, the ability to feel the difference is improved.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Hands, Order, Differences

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• 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

  Tasks, Action, Muscles

  Moshe Feldenkrais (2002). “The Potent Self: A Study of Spontaneity and Compulsion”, p.85, Frog Books

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• What you truly learn best will appear to you later as your own discovery.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Discovery

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• People confound, misuse, interchange thinking and speaking, not realizing that speaking is for communication and thinking is for action.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Communication, Thinking, People

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• We have more experience of movement and more capacity for it than of feeling and thought... We know much more about movement than we do about anger, love, envy or even thought. It is relatively easy to learn to recognize the quality of movement than the quality of other factors.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Philosophy, Medicine, Envy

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• A brain without a body could not think.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Thinking, Brain, Body

  Moshe Feldenkrais (2011). “Embodied Wisdom: The Collected Papers of Moshe Feldenkrais”, p.28, North Atlantic Books

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• 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.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Hands, Support, Touching

  Moshé Feldenkrais, Elizabeth Beringer (2010). “Embodied Wisdom: The Collected Papers of Moshé Freldenkrais”, North Atlantic Books

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• Standing is harder than moving.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Inspirational Life, Moving, Harder

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• Ultimately, we become aware of most of what is going on within us mainly through the muscles.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Life, Body, Muscles

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