Poetry in Motion

......................."So much is chance,
So much agility, desire, and feverish care,
As bicyclists and harpsichordists prove

Who only by moving can balance,
Only by balancing move.

from the poem "Machines" by Michael Donaghy
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Change

"Change is the only constant"
Heraclitus, 540BC-480BC
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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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F M Alexander

"Everyone wants to be right, but no one stops to consider if their idea of right is right"
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F M Alexander

"To know when we are wrong is all that we shall ever know in this world"
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