“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
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Path to Genius by Moshe
Moshe on Body & Mind
“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
Moshe on the impossible
“We make the impossible possible, the possible easy, and the easy elegant.”
Moshe Feldenkrais
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Tagged flexibility, Moshe Feldenkrais, Movement, Quotes, The Impossible
“Moshe to his students on learning”
While you learn, would you please make your faces not so serious that you would think you’re mourning over someone. There is nothing more pleasant, more important, more interesting than learning…..We are learning-and….being serious means not learning, but rather trying to learn, not understanding what’s being taught and writing it down so you can study it to satisfy the teacher. (Moshe Feldernkrais, Amherst 6/9/80)
Printed in The Feldenkrais Journal, #24 2011 – Letter from the Editor – Katrin Smithback
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Tagged Curiosity, Learning, Moshe Feldenkrais, Openness, Seriousness, Students
‘Moshe’ on organic learning
Organic learning is essential. It can also be therapeutic in essence. It is healthier to learn than to be a patient or even cured. Life is a process not a thing. And, processes go well if there are many ways to influence them. We need more ways to do what we want than the one we know – even it is is a good one in itself. ‘Moshe Feldenkrais’
‘Moshe’ on disconnect of self
My way of looking at the mind and the body, if you want to understand it is to help make that structure of the entire human being to be well-integrated, functionally well-integrated. To make that change you have to rewire the mind in a special way. The way we do things now is completely futile. It makes everybody alienated from themselves. Moshe Feldenkrias
‘Moshe’ on motivating free choice
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-patters of behaviour so that it may respond without inhibition to do what the person wants. Moshe Feldenkrais
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Tagged Free Choice, Individuality, Moshe Feldenkrais, Movement, Teaching
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