"Billiards is a path of passion that cares the soul." - Fred Fechter

Philosophy

 

"A discipline seeks through a trinity of oneness."

Fred


"Is it the bell that rings, is it the hammer that rings, or is it the meeting of the two that rings?"

ZEN


"Tao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, three gives birth to ten thousand things."

Tao


"Know in self, thou art a three - diminsional individual in a three dimensional consciousness."

Edgar Cayce


"For one to understand themselves, one has to be understood by another. To be understood by another, one must understand the other."

Thomas Hora


"If the doors of perception were cleaned, everything would appear to man as it is; infinite."

W. M. Blake


"If there were no God.....there would be no third alternative."

Thomas Hora


"Duality of this world is our classroom."

R.M. Bucke


"The knower and the known are one."

Meister Echart


"Know thyself."

Socrates


"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment."

Lao-Tzu


"I cannot teach you, I can only help you explore yourself."

Bruce Lee


"Balance and harmony is control of no control."

Fred


"In the beginners mind, there are many possibilities, but in the experts mind there are few."

Zen


"The body is the mind and the mind is the body, all of one."

Thomas Hora


"When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything."

Shunryu Suzuki


"All problems are psychological, all solutions are spiritual. "

Thomas Hora


"For myself be thou, for I to see."

Fred


"When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man."

Zen


"Do not play to live----but live to play."

James Carse 


"One’s degree of attainment is fulfilled by one’s conscious emptiness."

Fred


"Form is formlessness, formlessness is form."

Zen


"A perfect student is one seeking understanding."

Zen


"One’s willingness to seek is the finding."

Tao 


"Flower is mind and it’s seed performing technique."

Zeami


"In the music of the spheres, one must find harmony, beauty, peace, perfection, freedom, joy, creative intelligence
and inspired wisdom realized by love through the trinity of operational presence."

Fred


"To thine own self be true."

William Shakespeare


"Righteous virtues grow from its root of passionate interest and flower in the strong sunlight of its inspiration."

Fred