Ends and Means

"I have described a technique of physical training (that developed by F.M. Alexander), which is valuable, among other reasons, as a means for increasing the conscious control of the body and, in this way, raising a human being from a condition of physical unawareness to a state of physical self-consciousness and self-control. Such physical self-awareness and self-control leads to, and to some extent is actually a form of, mental and moral self-awareness and self-control."

"........................................The principle is simple. What is difficult, as always, is its application in practice. To know is relatively easy; to will and consistently to do is always hard."

from "Ends and Means" by Aldous Huxley
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