Quotes and Mantras
Mantras for Spring 2021
Updated 2/11/2021
“You’re enough now, you’ll be enough when it’s over, and in between, we play.” Me
“There is no way to peace; peace is the way.” Thich Nhat Hahn
“Make it irresistible.” Annabelle Joseph
“If you needed to know that, you’d know it.” Mulgrew Miller
"How fascinating!” Benjamin Zander
“Is that so?” Hakuin in Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
“No tension; attention; intention.” Me
"Play always as if in the presence of a master.” Schumann
“There is no end to learning” Schumann
“You don’t have a body; you are a body” You
“The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music...bodies never lie.” - Agnes de Mille
"The fulfillment of our duties and the satisfaction of our personal pleasures are two different things. Duties have their own laws, and even if we try to mix our duties with our pleasures, they will separate themselves." - Immanuel Kant
...These are extra food and unnecessary luggage; they do not bring happiness. - from Tao Te Ching, 24
We might stop saying "we must". Might we say we might?
"Teaching, a true side door to making my artistry matter in my own mind."
Mantras for Spring 2020, Updated 2/12/2020
"Peace is possible" Thich Nhat Ahn
"Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive, or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without but falsely identified as lying within.” Stephen Jay Gould
“A cynic, after all, is a passionate person who doesn’t want to be disappointed again.” - Benjamin Zander
“Listen to someone beyond their words, beyond what they are showing or presenting.” Ben Firer
“Instead of, ‘Do you have any questions?’, ‘What questions do you have?’” Kate Pukinskis
“He always saw me for what I wasn’t yet, instead of who I was right then.” Emerson Eads
“They want what they want but they don’t know what they want.” Nick Lenio
“Lots of people shred, but only some people shred and make others feel like they can too.” Jackson Emmer
“You can’t teach what you wish, you can’t teach what you do, you can only teach who you are.” Steven Cosnek
Updated 2/11/2021
“You’re enough now, you’ll be enough when it’s over, and in between, we play.” Me
“There is no way to peace; peace is the way.” Thich Nhat Hahn
“Make it irresistible.” Annabelle Joseph
“If you needed to know that, you’d know it.” Mulgrew Miller
"How fascinating!” Benjamin Zander
“Is that so?” Hakuin in Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
“No tension; attention; intention.” Me
"Play always as if in the presence of a master.” Schumann
“There is no end to learning” Schumann
“You don’t have a body; you are a body” You
“The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music...bodies never lie.” - Agnes de Mille
"The fulfillment of our duties and the satisfaction of our personal pleasures are two different things. Duties have their own laws, and even if we try to mix our duties with our pleasures, they will separate themselves." - Immanuel Kant
...These are extra food and unnecessary luggage; they do not bring happiness. - from Tao Te Ching, 24
We might stop saying "we must". Might we say we might?
"Teaching, a true side door to making my artistry matter in my own mind."
Mantras for Spring 2020, Updated 2/12/2020
"Peace is possible" Thich Nhat Ahn
"Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive, or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without but falsely identified as lying within.” Stephen Jay Gould
“A cynic, after all, is a passionate person who doesn’t want to be disappointed again.” - Benjamin Zander
“Listen to someone beyond their words, beyond what they are showing or presenting.” Ben Firer
“Instead of, ‘Do you have any questions?’, ‘What questions do you have?’” Kate Pukinskis
“He always saw me for what I wasn’t yet, instead of who I was right then.” Emerson Eads
“They want what they want but they don’t know what they want.” Nick Lenio
“Lots of people shred, but only some people shred and make others feel like they can too.” Jackson Emmer
“You can’t teach what you wish, you can’t teach what you do, you can only teach who you are.” Steven Cosnek
Mantras for Fall of 2019, Updated 9/12/2019
"Peace is possible" Thich Nhat Ahn
“Instead of, ‘Do you have any questions?’, ‘What questions do you have?’” Kate Pukinskis
“He always saw me for what I wasn’t yet, instead of who I was right then.” Emerson Eads
“Lots of people shred, but only some people shred and make others feel like they can too.” Jackson Emmer
“They want what they want but they don’t know what they want.” Nick Lenio
“If it was easy, everybody would do it.” Butch Kaeppel
“The grass right by the road just tastes better.” Andrew Borkowski
"If you fall down seven times, get up eight. Ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship. So, keep moving, keep growing, keep learning. See you at work.”
-Denzel Washington at 2017 NAACP Image awards
“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.” -Aaron Copland