gymnastics ::: n. --> Athletic or disciplinary exercises; the art of performing gymnastic exercises; also, disciplinary exercises for the intellect or character.
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2 The Mother
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20 Shawn Johnson
12 Olga Korbut
11 Jonathan Horton
5 Gabby Douglas
4 Nastia Liukin
4 McKayla Maroney
4 Bela Karolyi
3 Sylvia Day
3 Plato
3 Nadia Comaneci
3 Dominique Moceanu
3 Anonymous
2 The Mother
2 Paramahansa Yogananda
2 Oksana Chusovitina
2 Nina Dobrev
2 Jenny Han
2 Jay Leno
2 Gwendoline Christie
2 Cathy Rigby
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Sometimes while reading a text one has ideas, then Sweet Mother, how can one distinguish between the other person's idea and one's own?
Oh! This, this doesn't exist, the other person's idea and one's own idea.
Nobody has ideas of his own: it is an immensity from which one draws according to his personal affinity; ideas are a collective possession, a collective wealth.
Only, there are different stages. So there is the most common level, the one where all our brains bathe; this indeed swarms here, it is the level of "Mr. Everybody". And then there is a level that's slightly higher for people who are called thinkers. And then there are higher levels still - many - some of them are beyond words but they are still domains of ideas. And then there are those capable of shooting right up, catching something which is like a light and making it come down with all its stock of ideas, all its stock of thoughts. An idea from a higher domain if pulled down organises itself and is crystallised in a large number of thoughts which can express that idea differently; and then if you are a writer or a poet or an artist, when you make it come lower down still, you can have all kinds of expressions, extremely varied and choice around a single little idea but one coming from very high above. And when you know how to do this, it teaches you to distinguish between the pure idea and the way of expressing it.
Some people cannot do it in their own head because they have no imagination or faculty for writing, but they can do it through study by reading what others have written. There are, you know, lots of poets, for instance, who have expressed the same idea - the same idea but with such different forms that when one reads many of them it becomes quite interesting to see (for people who love to read and read much). Ah, this idea, that one has said it like this, that other has expressed it like that, another has formulated it in this way, and so on. And so you have a whole stock of expressions which are expressions by different poets of the same single idea up there, above, high above. And you notice that there is an almost essential difference between the pure idea, the typal idea and its formulation in the mental world, even the speculative or artistic mental world. This is a very good thing to do when one loves gymnastics. It is mental gymnastics.
Well, if you want to be truly intelligent, you must know how to do mental gymnastics; as, you see, if you want really to have a fairly strong body you must know how to do physical gymnastics. It is the same thing. People who have never done mental gymnastics have a poor little brain, quite over-simple, and all their life they think like children. One must know how to do this - not take it seriously, in the sense that one shouldn't have convictions, saying, "This idea is true and that is false; this formulation is correct and that one is not and this religion is the true one and that religion is false", and so on and so forth... this, if you enter into it, you become absolutely stupid.
But if you can see all that and, for example, take all the religions, one after another and see how they have expressed the same aspiration of the human being for some Absolute, it becomes very interesting; and then you begin... yes, you begin to be able to juggle with all that. And then when you have mastered it all, you can rise above it and look at all the eternal human discussions with a smile. So there you are master of the thought and can no longer fly into a rage because someone else does not think as you, something that's unfortunately a very common malady here.
Now, there we are. Nobody has any questions, no?
That's enough? Finished! ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1955,#KEYS
2:Mental Education
OF ALL lines of education, mental education is the most widely known and practised, yet except in a few rare cases there are gaps which make it something very incomplete and in the end quite insufficient.
Generally speaking, schooling is considered to be all the mental education that is necessary. And when a child has been made to undergo, for a number of years, a methodical training which is more like cramming than true schooling, it is considered that whatever is necessary for his mental development has been done. Nothing of the kind. Even conceding that the training is given with due measure and discrimination and does not permanently damage the brain, it cannot impart to the human mind the faculties it needs to become a good and useful instrument. The schooling that is usually given can, at the most, serve as a system of gymnastics to increase the suppleness of the brain. From this standpoint, each branch of human learning represents a special kind of mental gymnastics, and the verbal formulations given to these various branches each constitute a special and well-defined language.
A true mental education, which will prepare man for a higher life, has five principal phases. Normally these phases follow one after another, but in exceptional individuals they may alternate or even proceed simultaneously. These five phases, in brief, are:
(1) Development of the power of concentration, the capacity of attention.
(2) Development of the capacities of expansion, widening, complexity and richness.
(3) Organisation of one's ideas around a central idea, a higher ideal or a supremely luminous idea that will serve as a guide in life.
(4) Thought-control, rejection of undesirable thoughts, to become able to think only what one wants and when one wants.
(5) Development of mental silence, perfect calm and a more and more total receptivity to inspirations coming from the higher regions of the being.
It is not possible to give here all the details concerning the methods to be employed in the application of these five phases of education to different individuals. Still, a few explanations on points of detail can be given.
Undeniably, what most impedes mental progress in children is the constant dispersion of their thoughts. Their thoughts flutter hither and thither like butterflies and they have to make a great effort to fix them. Yet this capacity is latent in them, for when you succeed in arousing their interest, they are capable of a good deal of attention. By his ingenuity, therefore, the educator will gradually help the child to become capable of a sustained effort of attention and a faculty of more and more complete absorption in the work in hand. All methods that can develop this faculty of attention from games to rewards are good and can all be utilised according to the need and the circumstances. But it is the psychological action that is most important and the sovereign method is to arouse in the child an interest in what you want to teach him, a liking for work, a will to progress. To love to learn is the most precious gift that one can give to a child: to love to learn always and everywhere, so that all circumstances, all happenings in life may be constantly renewed opportunities for learning more and always more.
For that, to attention and concentration should be added observation, precise recording and faithfulness of memory. This faculty of observation can be developed by varied and spontaneous exercises, making use of every opportunity that presents itself to keep the child's thought wakeful, alert and prompt. The growth of the understanding should be stressed much more than that of memory. One knows well only what one has understood. Things learnt by heart, mechanically, fade away little by little and finally disappear; what is understood is never forgotten. Moreover, you must never refuse to explain to a child the how and the why of things. If you cannot do it yourself, you must direct the child to those who are qualified to answer or point out to him some books that deal with the question. In this way you will progressively awaken in the child the taste for true study and the habit of making a persistent effort to know.
This will bring us quite naturally to the second phase of development in which the mind should be widened and enriched.
You will gradually show the child that everything can become an interesting subject for study if it is approached in the right way. The life of every day, of every moment, is the best school of all, varied, complex, full of unexpected experiences, problems to be solved, clear and striking examples and obvious consequences. It is so easy to arouse healthy curiosity in children, if you answer with intelligence and clarity the numerous questions they ask. An interesting reply to one readily brings others in its train and so the attentive child learns without effort much more than he usually does in the classroom. By a choice made with care and insight, you should also teach him to enjoy good reading-matter which is both instructive and attractive. Do not be afraid of anything that awakens and pleases his imagination; imagination develops the creative mental faculty and through it study becomes living and the mind develops in joy.
In order to increase the suppleness and comprehensiveness of his mind, one should see not only that he studies many varied topics, but above all that a single subject is approached in various ways, so that the child understands in a practical manner that there are many ways of facing the same intellectual problem, of considering it and solving it. This will remove all rigidity from his brain and at the same time it will make his thinking richer and more supple and prepare it for a more complex and comprehensive synthesis. In this way also the child will be imbued with the sense of the extreme relativity of mental learning and, little by little, an aspiration for a truer source of knowledge will awaken in him.
Indeed, as the child grows older and progresses in his studies, his mind too ripens and becomes more and more capable of forming general ideas, and with them almost always comes a need for certitude, for a knowledge that is stable enough to form the basis of a mental construction which will permit all the diverse and scattered and often contradictory ideas accumulated in his brain to be organised and put in order. This ordering is indeed very necessary if one is to avoid chaos in one's thoughts. All contradictions can be transformed into complements, but for that one must discover the higher idea that will have the power to bring them harmoniously together. It is always good to consider every problem from all possible standpoints so as to avoid partiality and exclusiveness; but if the thought is to be active and creative, it must, in every case, be the natural and logical synthesis of all the points of view adopted. And if you want to make the totality of your thoughts into a dynamic and constructive force, you must also take great care as to the choice of the central idea of your mental synthesis; for upon that will depend the value of this synthesis. The higher and larger the central idea and the more universal it is, rising above time and space, the more numerous and the more complex will be the ideas, notions and thoughts which it will be able to organise and harmonise.
It goes without saying that this work of organisation cannot be done once and for all. The mind, if it is to keep its vigour and youth, must progress constantly, revise its notions in the light of new knowledge, enlarge its frame-work to include fresh notions and constantly reclassify and reorganise its thoughts, so that each of them may find its true place in relation to the others and the whole remain harmonious and orderly.
All that has just been said concerns the speculative mind, the mind that learns. But learning is only one aspect of mental activity; the other, which is at least equally important, is the constructive faculty, the capacity to form and thus prepare action. This very important part of mental activity has rarely been the subject of any special study or discipline. Only those who want, for some reason, to exercise a strict control over their mental activities think of observing and disciplining this faculty of formation; and as soon as they try it, they have to face difficulties so great that they appear almost insurmountable.
And yet control over this formative activity of the mind is one of the most important aspects of self-education; one can say that without it no mental mastery is possible. As far as study is concerned, all ideas are acceptable and should be included in the synthesis, whose very function is to become more and more rich and complex; but where action is concerned, it is just the opposite. The ideas that are accepted for translation into action should be strictly controlled and only those that agree with the general trend of the central idea forming the basis of the mental synthesis should be permitted to express themselves in action. This means that every thought entering the mental consciousness should be set before the central idea; if it finds a logical place among the thoughts already grouped, it will be admitted into the synthesis; if not, it will be rejected so that it can have no influence on the action. This work of mental purification should be done very regularly in order to secure a complete control over one's actions.
For this purpose, it is good to set apart some time every day when one can quietly go over one's thoughts and put one's synthesis in order. Once the habit is acquired, you can maintain control over your thoughts even during work and action, allowing only those which are useful for what you are doing to come to the surface. Particularly, if you have continued to cultivate the power of concentration and attention, only the thoughts that are needed will be allowed to enter the active external consciousness and they then become all the more dynamic and effective. And if, in the intensity of concentration, it becomes necessary not to think at all, all mental vibration can be stilled and an almost total silence secured. In this silence one can gradually open to the higher regions of the mind and learn to record the inspirations that come from there.
But even before reaching this point, silence in itself is supremely useful, because in most people who have a somewhat developed and active mind, the mind is never at rest. During the day, its activity is kept under a certain control, but at night, during the sleep of the body, the control of the waking state is almost completely removed and the mind indulges in activities which are sometimes excessive and often incoherent. This creates a great stress which leads to fatigue and the diminution of the intellectual faculties.
The fact is that like all the other parts of the human being, the mind too needs rest and it will not have this rest unless we know how to provide it. The art of resting one's mind is something to be acquired. Changing one's mental activity is certainly one way of resting; but the greatest possible rest is silence. And as far as the mental faculties are concerned a few minutes passed in the calm of silence are a more effective rest than hours of sleep.
When one has learned to silence the mind at will and to concentrate it in receptive silence, then there will be no problem that cannot be solved, no mental difficulty whose solution cannot be found. When it is agitated, thought becomes confused and impotent; in an attentive tranquillity, the light can manifest itself and open up new horizons to man's capacity. Bulletin, November 1951
~ The Mother, On Education,#KEYS
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1:Gymnastics is so complex. ~ Shawn Johnson
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2:I will always love gymnastics. ~ Sophie Nelisse
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3:Chess is intellectual gymnastics. ~ Wilhelm Steinitz
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4:The Olympic Snatch is gymnastics with a bar ~ Mark Rippetoe
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5:But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics. ~ Olga Korbut
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6:I'm really good at gymnastics, and that's about it. ~ Amy Adams
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7:Yoga is just gymnastics for uncoordinated people. ~ Claire Dederer
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8:I love watching gymnastics, swimming, and track and field. ~ Mia Hamm
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9:A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself. ~ Shawn Johnson
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10:Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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11:I know gymnastics. It's always been a subjective appreciation. ~ Bela Karolyi
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12:The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about. ~ Bela Karolyi
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13:I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics. ~ Shawn Johnson
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14:The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came. ~ Bela Karolyi
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15:You’ve worked hard at school and at gymnastics. That’s no easy feat! ~ Mary Casanova
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16:Discipline is the quality that carries over from gymnastics to acting. ~ Mitch Gaylord
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17:You want to picture yourself being on top and doing amazing gymnastics. ~ Gabby Douglas
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18:The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does. ~ Honore de Balzac
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19:I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits. ~ Kristin Kreuk
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20:Gymnastics is definitely my job, but the great thing about that is I love my job. ~ Jonathan Horton
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21:It feels amazing to inspire little kids to want to do gymnastics and have fun with it. ~ Simone Biles
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22:I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6. ~ Nadia Comaneci
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23:Everything about ypur movements precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about. ~ Shawn Johnson
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24:Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect. ~ Shawn Johnson
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25:They’ll make a gymnastics team, bending over backwards to prove their investigation was sound. ~ Jane Harper
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26:My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do. ~ Shawn Johnson
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27:Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about. ~ Shawn Johnson
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28:I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age. ~ Nadia Comaneci
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29:People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating. ~ Shawn Johnson
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30:That was what gymnastics did, though. It aged girls and kept them young forever at the same time. And ~ Megan Abbott
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31:But let me do I will show the world what gymnastics looks like. Well may be this is a future gymnastics. ~ Olga Korbut
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32:Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition. ~ Nadia Comaneci
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33:After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career. ~ Shawn Johnson
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34:With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias. ~ Criss Jami
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35:Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty. ~ Olga Korbut
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36:Gymnastics is not only a good thing to live by, but it is important to understand how it does help you in life. ~ Shawn Johnson
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37:I think I started toddler gymnastics when I was around 3 or 4, and I began taking it seriously when I was 6. ~ Nolan Gerard Funk
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38:When I was much younger and still competing in gymnastics, I could rarely find inspiration outside of the sport. ~ Nastia Liukin
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39:If there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one with the sport. ~ Olga Korbut
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40:Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business. ~ Nastia Liukin
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41:Active listening asks couples to perform Olympic-level emotional gymnastics even if their relationship can barely walk. ~ John M Gottman
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42:I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things. ~ Malaika Arora Khan
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43:I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt. ~ Gabby Douglas
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44:The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature. ~ Aristotle
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45:I fell in love with gymnastics. I love what I do now. I work with people that I love to be around. Success comes from that. ~ Shawn Johnson
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46:Athens was a great experience and I'll always be able to look back on it and say I achieved my ultimate goal in gymnastics. ~ Carly Patterson
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47:Thanks for the reminder that i have to hit the gym today. I have'nt worked out in days. Unless one counted mattress gymnastics!!! ~ Sylvia Day
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48:I will find out what the normal life is like. I will be a coach. I have achieved everything I could achieve in gymnastics. ~ Oksana Chusovitina
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49:I think I spent all my life in gymnastics. And if you will ask me I want to change something in your past life, no. I will go same. ~ Olga Korbut
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50:When you are on the podium nobody is asking you if you are 15 or 30 years old. What matters is who can do great gymnastics. ~ Oksana Chusovitina
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51:I'm able to support my wife and family off of gymnastics. But at the same time I do take it very seriously - it is a job for me. ~ Jonathan Horton
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52:It's tough. Gymnastics isn't basketball or football or baseball, where you can get these huge contracts and make a lot of money. ~ Jonathan Horton
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53:Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected. ~ Shawn Johnson
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54:I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center as well. ~ Shawn Johnson
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55:I was an extreme tomboy. I did competitive gymnastics for over 10 years. I cut my hair like Winona Ryder, with that little pixie cut. ~ Serinda Swan
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56:Teams take serious chances when they try to make large changes without tests. It is like doing aerial gymnastics without a net. ~ Michael C Feathers
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57:Thanks for the reminder that i have to hit the gym today. I have'nt worked out in days.
Unless one counted mattress gymnastics!!! ~ Sylvia Day
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58:Gymnastics has given me everything in my life. I will continue to stay involved and try to give back to the sport that has given me so much. ~ Nastia Liukin
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59:I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine. ~ Gwendoline Christie
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60:Dominique Moceanu is so inspiring! I love her Go-For-Gold Gymnastics Series! I love this book so much and I hope I get to read more of the series! ~ Dominique Moceanu
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61:How many people in the world is, each of them is individual. And I like to eat bread, somebody don't like that. You know this is the same in gymnastics. ~ Olga Korbut
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62:The biological function of art, in other words, is that of a rehearsal, a training in mental gymnastics which increases our tolerance of the unexpected. ~ E H Gombrich
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63:I was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California. I was very athletic, playing volleyball and softball. I did gymnastics for about ten years, too. ~ Jasmine Tookes
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64:I'd tell any girl who continues to love gymnastics enough to want pursue a college scholarship to keep pushing yourself 100% in the gym every single day. ~ Gabby Douglas
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65:The mind more often faints from the severity of study than from the severity of gymnastics: the toil is more entirely the mind's own and is not shared with the body. ~ Plato
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66:Gymnastics has made me strong. I feel like it broke me down to my lowest point, but at the same time, it has given me the greatest strength anyone could ask for. ~ Shawn Johnson
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67:He even wrote a ballet about soccer, in which crooked capitalist soccer players face off against clean-living Soviets who perform startling slowmotion gymnastics. ~ M T Anderson
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68:I had a couple friends from all the different cliques in school, but my true friends were my gymnastics teammates. I grew up competing with them for ten years. ~ Nicole Anderson
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69:We need to remind ourselves that contemporary art is first of all a form of conceptual gymnastics, in which we learn to coexist with what we don't understand. ~ Massimiliano Gioni
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70:It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward. ~ Elizabeth Taylor
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71:Let’s maybe avoid competing in the gymnastics events,” 9-Krelblax said. He sounded terrified. Zzarvon’s moodcore had gone white; he gulped and nodded in agreement. ~ Conor Lastowka
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72:In high school I never went to the prom because I was too consumed with gymnastics. Also, with my hair in pigtails and looking about 10, I wasn't exactly date material. ~ Cathy Rigby
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73:I think about my goals. There were a lot of times in gymnastics when I really didn't want to go in and train, but you can't make it to the Olympics if you don't train! ~ Shawn Johnson
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74:I was a rhythmic and athletic gymnast for a little while. Then, when I quit gymnastics, I fell in love with yoga. So sometimes I think I'd like to open up a yoga studio. ~ Nina Dobrev
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75:I would say this is not negative this is h, a hard part in gymnastics. You can't eat, whatever you want to eat. And what kind of meal you're supposed to have, you can't. ~ Olga Korbut
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76:There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know. ~ Cathy Rigby
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77:Wasn't it thrilling when the U.S. Women's team took home the gold in gymnastics? A group of American teenagers getting a higher score than Chinese kids? That never happens. ~ Jay Leno
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78:My family traveled with a whole community to European festivals. My mum did gymnastics, freak show performances, and swung fire in the circus, so I followed her footsteps. ~ Neon Hitch
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79:Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread. ~ James Russell Lowell
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80:Tango is about feeling and sensitivity, otherwise you are just doing gymnastics. You can do all the steps but it has to have the feeling and sensitivity of authentic tango. ~ Carlos Gavito
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81:Think about it - pro wrestling as an Olympic sport would be pretty cool. Look at figure skating or gymnastics - what is it? It's a choreographed performance that is judged. ~ Chris Jericho
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82:I didn't think of it as lying. I thought of it as playing make-believe. I told Kitty she was adopted and her real family was in a travelling circus. It's why she took up gymnastics ~ Jenny Han
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83:I personally support the type of gymnastics which does not exceed a certain amount of acrobatics and risks because then one can still say: what a lovely sport gymnastics is. ~ Ludmilla Tourischeva
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84:Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without Olga. ~ Olga Korbut
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85:Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore. ~ Olga Korbut
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86:Unless it was an elaborate double-bluff on Wayne’s part and it was so obvious as to be not obvious at all … Christ, it was too early in the morning for this sort of mental gymnastics. ~ Marian Keyes
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87:I come from a very sporty background because my mom is a gymnastics teacher. So growing up I was never sitting watching TV in the afternoons. I always played ball outside in the backyard. ~ Gal Gadot
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88:When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn't know what to do with me! They put me in a Tots class and I just fell in love with it. ~ Shawn Johnson
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89:Creative people inspire me. Athletes also inspire me to come alive, especially my daughter, a competitive gymnast who works very hard, as much as six hours a day on her gymnastics skills. ~ Nathan East
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90:In gymnastics, everything is a competition. You want to have your hair look the best and your makeup look the best. You want to be the best, and you want to have the prettiest leotard. ~ McKayla Maroney
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91:When I was younger, the people making the sacrifice were my parents. It's not a cheap sport. Luckily, I had parents who made a lot of life sacrifices so I could continue in gymnastics. ~ Jonathan Horton
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92:Definitely gymnastics, because I was a gymnast for 11 years. That's my thing. My girlfriend Betty Okino was in the 1992 Olympics and won a bronze medal. She's a gymnast. So I'm a huge fan. ~ Jaime Pressly
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93:My parents enrolled me in a gymnastics class when I was three years old, and I just was drawn to gymnastics. I loved it. It was my playground, and I could run around and be free there. ~ Dominique Moceanu
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94:I think I always felt a connection to music and to movement. Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and the closest thing I could find to dance was gymnastics which I watched on TV. ~ Misty Copeland
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95:It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking. ~ Shawn Johnson
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96:Giddon broke off a piece and handed the loaf to Oll. “Are you angry that we weren’t performing strength exercises when you arrived, Katsa? Should we have been doing gymnastics in the treetops? ~ Kristin Cashore
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97:I had ridiculous amounts of energy. Mom's like, you're driving me crazy - do you want to try gymnastics? From the moment I started it, I loved it and it kind of was like storybook from there. ~ Alicia Sacramone
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98:Gymnastics does take great focus and concentration. What I do is look to my coach. He keeps me focused. And I meditate to get myself confident before the competition floor. That helps keep me focused, too. ~ Gabby Douglas
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99:In some ways the ACL tear was a blessing. I had hesitated to return to elite gymnastics after the 2008 Olympics. I told myself I had already accomplished so much, and the road was just going to get harder if I continued. ~ Shawn Johnson
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100:In gymnastics, smaller will always be better in many ways. The stress in the head, that will be the same for all. But the stress on the body and the concussions it must endure, that will always be easier for the little ones. ~ Bela Karolyi
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101:It will be hard to discover a better [method of education] than that which the experience of so many ages has already discovered; and this may be summed up as consisting in gymnastics for the body, and music for the soul. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
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102:I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting. ~ Aaron Taylor Johnson
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103:After thorough reflection, I realized that my desire to achieve my goals in this sport outweighed my self-doubt. This perseverance has helped me to be successful not only in gymnastics, but in my non-athletic life as well. ~ Jonathan Horton
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104:I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal. ~ Olga Korbut
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105:Oh, I used to lie all the time as a kid." I didn't think of it as lying, though. I thought of it as playing make-believe. I told Kitty she was adopted and her real family was in a traveling circus. It's why she took up gymnastics. ~ Jenny Han
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106:[on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It's a form of mental and physical gymnastics. ~ Benedict Cumberbatch
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107:I grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and was a very competitive (and stressed out!) gymnast before getting into entertainment, but it was never the actual gymnastics that was my true love. I loved the performing aspect of it all. ~ Rachele Brooke Smith
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108:I’m pretty sure my purpose here on earth isn’t to win arguments or perform hermeneutical gymnastics to impress the wealthiest 2 percent of the world. I don’t think God is glorified by tightly crafted arguments wielded as weaponry. ~ Sarah Bessey
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109:Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me. ~ Olga Korbut
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110:For me going down in history being the first black American to win the gold, I think more colored people are going to start coming to the gymnastics world and say 'okay, anything is possible. If Gabby did it, then I can do it too.' ~ Gabby Douglas
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111:I think the scores for Olympic gymnastics are affected by what countries the judge and the gymnast are from. That's wrong. That type of political pandering isn't meant for gymnastic Olympic events. It's meant for the Supreme Court. ~ Craig Ferguson
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112:I started in radio. I enjoy the mental gymnastics that go along with matching voice to picture and vice versa and trying to accent the action as opposed to provide all of the action through my words. And that's really what play-by-play is. ~ Joe Buck
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113:My mom and dad were extremely supportive. But my mom, she definitely made a lot of sacrifices, specifically because she wasn't working at the time. She ended up going and finding a job so she could continue to put me through gymnastics. ~ Jonathan Horton
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114:Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere. ~ Olga Korbut
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115:I did rhythmic gymnastics and I absolutely adored it. I was in the squad for Sussex. I wasn't stupendous, but it was something that I was good at and I really loved the combination of discipline and expression. That, to me, was just dreamy. ~ Gwendoline Christie
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116:It’s this stupid, desperate longing—this rose-colored-glasses way of looking backward—that makes it hard to concentrate on gymnastics, yet somehow makes everything I want seem more possible, too. Like maybe if I was happy once, I can get there again. ~ Anonymous
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117:When it comes to gymnastics, you can be 30 points ahead going into that competition, but on that day, it's all about luck. It's about who has a good day, who stays healthy, it's how happy the judges are that day, there are so many different factors. ~ Shawn Johnson
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118:Even if kids don't love gymnastics, if they start at any age with some classes, they can learn so many different things - they can build a lot of character, strength, flexibility, and courage. Hopefully, they can also develop a sense of fearlessness. ~ Nastia Liukin
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119:There's a point in gymnastics where once you get to a certain age your body just isn't going to be able to handle it anymore. But I'd like to continue on as long as I'm able to help the team out and be a contributor to the success of the U.S. team. ~ Jonathan Horton
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120:With Django Unchained, when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips. ~ Jamie Foxx
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121:I can put my legs behind my head and sing 'Happy Birthday.' Because that's something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy. ~ Emmy Rossum
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122:I was 16 when I quit gymnastics and decided to start acting. I started booking immediately after. I was very lucky and fortunate, but I also did the hard work. Half of it's hard work and half of it's luck. It's been working out so far. Fingers crossed for the future. ~ Nina Dobrev
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123:I always joke to my dad and thank him for giving me this little boy body. When I was 6 or 7, my gymnastics coach looked at my quads and told the other coach to come over and see my quads. They were big then and still are. But I've kind of embraced it through the years. ~ Ali Krieger
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124:The excellence and inspiration of truth is in the pursuit, not in the mere having of it. The pursuit of all truth is a kind of gymnastics; a man swings from one truth with higher strength to gain another. The continual glory is the possibility opening before us. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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125:I was a gymnast my whole life. I mean, I'd go to Starbucks and people would be like, 'Are you going to the next Olympics?' And when I'd say no, they'd literally look sad. So it was very hard for me to get excited about anything else. I thought that I had to do gymnastics forever. ~ McKayla Maroney
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126:By continually increasing the difficulty of the sport, we are discouraging younger athletes from starting and continuing in the sport. But most importantly, we are losing the beauty of our sport. We do not want gymnastics to lose what makes it so great - its artistic beauty. ~ Svetlana Boginskaya
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127:I guess you heard about this; the U.S. Olympic Committee is coming under fire after it was revealed that the uniforms for Team USA to be worn in the opening ceremony were made in China. Turns out they were made by some of the same kids who could beat us in gymnastics. That's the worst part. ~ Jay Leno
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128:I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school. ~ Mads Mikkelsen
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129:When others' obsessions are not ours, we are sad for them, and we talk of how empty their lives will be if they don't achieve their empty goal: the gymnastics prize, the firm partnership. But there is a monomania in which it is the focus, the sense of transport, that is the real pleasure. ~ Alice W Flaherty
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130:I took lessons for about everything you could imagine - gymnastics to karate to flute and piano. My mom always definitely kept me in some kind of class or program, but for guitar, I kinda gave up on then kinda just taught myself. Same thing with piano. I've never been good with following lessons. ~ Elle Varner
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131:He loved hearing about my gymnastics, even though he never really understood it. Mama had been an Elite gymnast back in Romania, so her questions were deeper, more probing, but Tata just wanted to know if I enjoyed myself and if I still followed the same dream I had had since I was three years old. ~ Dominique Moceanu
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132:I want to stay involved in gymnastics forever, but the Olympics really opened up doors in terms of motivational speaking. I'd like do some type of broadcasting or commentating for gymnastics events on TV, or even give my insights as a gymnast into other sports; I'm kind of a sports junkie in general. ~ Jonathan Horton
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133:Gymnastics, you get one shot; acting, it's like, do it again, do it again, do it again. So that was the one thing that I found very different. You're allowed to get different tries and you're more expressive in a way when you're working with people. In gymnastics, you're so on your own and individual. ~ McKayla Maroney
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134:With gymnastics, I know I was making some people in that world mad because they thought that I wasn't focused on gymnastics. They were like, 'Ugh, she won't get off social media, she's always tweeting.' They wanted me to be America's sweetheart. And I think I've never fit into that cookie cutter person. ~ McKayla Maroney
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135: September—Eleven Months Before Accident WHEN MAXIMILIAN Hallowell winks at me, my heart somersaults like an overzealous toddler at her first gymnastics class. Because, yes, when it comes to this guy, I am so over-the-top awkward that even the metaphorical tumbling of my internal organs is cringe-worthy. I ~ Lexi Ryan
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136:Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason. Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected. And those wouldn't have happened had I not accepted my injury as a way to try something new. ~ Shawn Johnson
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137:As an orangutan cannot embrace higher mathematics or comprehend the architecture and operation of a computer, we humans __ so good at loudly proclaiming our intelligence and applauding our own doltish displays of cerebral gymnastics __ cannot begin to understand the true structure and functioning of the Universe. ~ John Rachel
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138:I threw flips and cartwheels straight across the grass, fuck my imaginary stitches, fuck whether Lexie had done gymnastics, I couldn’t remember the last time I had been this drunk and I loved it. I wanted to dive deeper into it and never come up for air, open my mouth and take a huge breath and drown on this night ~ Tana French
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139:It was definitely a big change in my life going from the college scene to really kind of being on my own. I got married and moved to Houston and started a whole new journey. It was scary in a way, but what's great for me is just focusing on gymnastics and my wife. I'm really able to put 100% into what my goals are. ~ Jonathan Horton
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140:God put us here to go through this kind of mental gymnastics, and He certainly put us here to enjoy our sexual lives. He put us here to ask, to try and find out the best way possible to live with our neighbors. Of course, you can go through a life not asking, and that's the tragedy: so many lives lived in moral blindness. ~ Dorothy Day
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141:It’s called the pursuit of perfection. The pursuit is the idea that you’ll never be perfect in gymnastics but you can continue to pursue it as long as you’re doing it. I don’t think it’s possible to be perfect in gymnastics. It’s just one of those sports that you’re always trying to improve and pursue that perfection. ~ Jonathan Horton
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142:Yes, I said; and there cannot be any worse fault in a guardian of the State and of the laws. True. The guardian then, I said, must be required to take the longer circuit, and toil at learning as well as at gymnastics, or he will never reach the highest knowledge of all which, as we were just now saying, is his proper calling. What, ~ Plato
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143:I’m a true believer in the mental side of gymnastics – the 95% mental and 5% physical. It’s totally true. As you get to an older age, at 25 years old, I’ve pretty much learned everything that I need to learn in gymnastics. Now it’s, can I mentally push through the daily grind? Can I push through the small injuries and the aches and pains? ~ Jonathan Horton
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144:I began dancing when I was 7 years old. I was told that I had the perfect ballet dancers body and had these crazy high arches in my feet that resulted in an amazing point. Ballet was very disciplined and, frankly, a little boring, so I eventually transitioned to gymnastics. I loved that, although I never reached a competitive level. ~ Catherine Mary Stewart
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145:From what my friends tell me, apparently some guys can be pretty intimidated by me when they find out what I do. I find it funny because I try to be modest and I don't like to talk about gymnastics unless I am asked about it. But my roommates always take on my bragging rights and tell my life story to the guys we meet, which leaves me blushing. ~ Alicia Sacramone
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146:Live in rooms full of light. Avoid heavy food. Be moderate in the drinking of wine. Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics. Fight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running water. Change surroundings and take long journeys. Strictly avoid frightening ideas. Indulge in cheerful conversation and amusements. Listen to music. ~ Aulus Cornelius Celsus
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147:When one tries to increase his knowledge by doing mental gymnastics over books without waiting upon God and looking to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, his soul is plainly in full swing. This will deplete his spiritual life. Because the fall of man was occasioned by seeking knowledge, God uses the foolishness of the cross to "destroy the wisdom of the wise. ~ Watchman Nee
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148:Staying in shape does not come easily, especially as you get older and you don't have as much time or energy to exercise. I used to be naturally skinny in high school and college. I was in cheerleading, ran track, and did gymnastics, so I had a built-in five-hour workout every day. Lately, I've been doing Pilates on the Megaformer, which is like Pilates on steroids. ~ Eva Longoria
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149:He was also the god of (take a deep breath) commerce, languages, thievery, cheeseburgers, trickery, eloquent speaking, feasts, cheeseburgers, hospitality, guard dogs, birds of omen, gymnastics, athletic competitions, cheeseburgers, cheeseburgers and telling fortunes with dice. Okay, I just tossed in the cheeseburgers to see if you were paying attention. Also, I’m hungry. ~ Rick Riordan
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150:Quite often on a movie like Total Recall you have this training period of two or three months where, like on the first 'Underworld' I was doing gymnastics and trampolining and all this stuff which I don't do in the movie necessarily, but mentally it helps. You come home and you go: 'Well, I've done all that. I must be an action star now!' So it helps you focus a little bit and gets you fit. ~ Colin Farrell
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151:Well, for what it’s worth, celibacy looks good on you.”
He snorted. “Because I’ve put on a few pounds? Happens. You eat, because you crave the endorphins you’re not getting with an orgasm, and you get less exercise, because you’re not practicing any mattress gymnastics.”
“Cary.” I laughed.
“Look at you, baby girl. You’re all tight and toned from Marathon Man Cross over there. ~ Sylvia Day
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152:I've been an itinerant singer, a circus-rider, when I used to vault like Leotard, and dance on a rope like Blondin. Then I got to be a professor of gymnastics, so as to make better use of my talents; and then I was a sergeant fireman at Paris, and assisted at many a big fire. But I quitted France five years ago, and, wishing to taste the sweets of domestic life, took service as a valet here in England. ~ Jules Verne
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153:Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only, and by means of the electric light projected on a screen, that we may witness physical phenomena, but that we may find illustrations of the highest doctrines of science in games and gymnastics, in travelling by land and by water, in storms of the air and of the sea, and wherever there is matter in motion. ~ James Clerk Maxwell
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154:In order to be a world-class expert in anything, be it audiology, drama, music, art, gymnastics, whatever, one needs to have a minimum of 10,000 hours of practice. Unfortunately, it doesn't mean that if you put in 10,000 hours that you will become an expert, but there aren't any cases where someone has achieved world-class mastery without it! So the time spent at the activity is indeed the most important and influential factor. ~ Daniel Levitin
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155:The AMA puts the lives and well being of the American citizens well below it's own special interest...It deserves to be ignored, rejected, and forgotten. No amount of historical gymnastics can hide the public record of AMA opposition to virtually every major health reform in the past 50 years....The AMA has turned into a propaganda organ purveying 'medical politics' for deceiving the Congress, the people, and the doctors of America themselves. ~ Edward Kennedy
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156:Art is an institution to which we turn when we want to feel a shock of surprise. We feel this want because we sense that it is good for us once in a while to receive a healthy jolt. Otherwise we would so easily get stuck in a rut and could no longer adapt to the new demands that life is apt to make on us. The biological function of art, in other words, is that of a rehearsal, a training in mental gymnastics which increases our tolerance of the unexpected. ~ Eric R Kandel
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157:The school year started in September, with a long vacation in the winter, not the summer, due to the difficulty of keeping the schools warm in North Korea’s harsh winters. My kindergarten had a large wood-burning stove in the middle of the classroom and walls painted with colourful scenes of children performing gymnastics, children in uniform, and of a North Korean soldier simultaneously impaling a Yankee, a Japanese and a South Korean soldier with his rifle bayonet. ~ Hyeonseo Lee
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158:Violence never solved anything.” This platitude is so patently and obviously false that it takes some pretty special mental gymnastics to say it, much less believe it. The fact is that some things, especially dangerous things happening very fast, can ONLY be solved by violence. This adage frequently infuriates professionals because sometimes the problem they have solved with violence was their own survival or the survival of someone they loved. Survival is pretty hard to devalue. ~ Rory Miller
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159:Curiously, while drone operators are perhaps the safest of all combat troops physically, they have among the highest rates of depression and post-traumatic stress in the military and national security services. Sitting at a video console in Colorado or New York City, killing someone six thousand miles away and then collecting the kids at gymnastics or football practice, having dinner and sitting down to watch Dancing with the Stars in your suburban den was disorienting beyond belief. ~ Jeffery Deaver
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160:Years later, (Paul) Jones described the mental gymnastics that went into writing these scripts. "Every evening I would close my eyes in a quiet place in my apartment ... I would visualize the opening and walk myself through the day and imagine the different emotional states the market would go through... Then when you get there, you are ready for it. You have been there before. You are in a mental state to take advantage of emotional extremes because you have already lived through them. ~ Sebastian Mallaby
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161:He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes, accessible to the initiates. This was a long road which he was traveling with effort, wonderment, and profound joy. Physics was prose: elegant gymnastics for the mind, mirror of Creation, the key to man's dominion over the planet; but what is the stature of Creation, of man and the planet? His road was long and he had barely started up it, but I was his disciple: did I want to follow him? ~ Primo Levi
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162:Apart from these parental physical jerks, he did not train his body; he merely inhabited it. A friend had once shown what he called gymnastics for the intelligentsia. You took a box of matches and threw its contents on the floor, then bent down and picked them up, one by one. The first time he tried it himself, he lost patience and stuffed all the matches back in handfuls. He persevered, but the next time, just as he was bending down, the telephone went, and he was needed at once; so the housekeeper was detailed to pick up the matches instead. ~ Julian Barnes
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163:Years ago I sang on a track using that voice and someone asked, 'Who is that terribly depressed man?' But Patrick loved it. He said, 'You sound like a young boy, like a child, like an old woman, like an old man,' and really, we all have all of those things inside of us. I don't do any vocal gymnastics to make the voice better as I age. If it comes out rougher, then it's true to what's happening. Singing is who I am. I didn't train for it, any more than I trained for anything else I did. I probably should take better care of myself physically, but it goes against the grain. ~ Lisa Gerrard
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164:The sex act is emotionally the richest and the most imaginatively charged event in our lives, comparable only to the embrace of our children as a source of affection and mystery. But no kinaesthetic language has yet been devised to describe it in detail, and without one we are in the position of an unqualified observer viewing an operation for brain surgery. Ballet, gymnastics, American football and judo are furnished with elaborate kinaesthetic languages, but it's still easier to describe the tango or the cockpit take-off procedures for a 747 than to recount in detail an act of love. ~ J G Ballard
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165:MONSTER THE MYSTERY AT PEACOCK HALL THE WINDY CITY MYSTERY THE BLACK PEARL MYSTERY THE CEREAL BOX MYSTERY THE PANTHER MYSTERY THE MYSTERY OF THE QUEEN’S JEWELS THE STOLEN SWORD MYSTERY THE BASKETBALL MYSTERY THE MOVIE STAR MYSTERY THE MYSTERY OF THE PIRATE’S MAP THE GHOST TOWN MYSTERY THE MYSTERY OF THE BLACK RAVEN THE MYSTERY IN THE MALL THE MYSTERY IN NEW YORK THE GYMNASTICS MYSTERY THE POISON FROG MYSTERY THE MYSTERY OF THE EMPTY SAFE THE HOME RUN MYSTERY THE GREAT BICYCLE RACE MYSTERY THE MYSTERY OF THE WILD PONIES THE MYSTERY IN THE COMPUTER GAME THE MYSTERY AT THE CROOKED HOUSE T ~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
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166:Yeah because he don't want to debate me, I'm too intellectual. One thing about me, you know, I'm the equivalent of an Obama, you know what I'm saying. My intellect is very deep. I have linguistics and dialects that he probably couldn't comprehend. My mental gymnastics which is overcapacitate his train of thought. So I wouldn't you know even be in the same vocabulary with him. You know. It would hurt him for him to have me on television and me to have more conversation and more intellect than him. And him being some old, blue eyed, whatever the fuck coloured hair guy bald spot having dick sucking son of a bitch. ~ Snoop Dogg
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167:Just the opposite. In childhood and youth their study, and what philosophy they learn, should be suited to their tender years: during this period while they are growing up towards manhood, the chief and special care should be given to their bodies that they may have them to use in the service of philosophy; as life advances and the intellect begins to mature, let them increase the gymnastics of the soul; but when the strength of our citizens fails and is past civil and military duties, then let them range at will and engage in no serious labour, as we intend them to live happily here, and to crown this life with a similar happiness in another. How ~ Plato
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168:The last option (tell her she didn’t deserve to win) seems hardhearted under the circumstances. And of course you wouldn’t say it quite that way. But that’s pretty much what her growth-minded father told her. Here’s what he actually said: “Elizabeth, I know how you feel. It’s so disappointing to have your hopes up and to perform your best but not to win. But you know, you haven’t really earned it yet. There were many girls there who’ve been in gymnastics longer than you and who’ve worked a lot harder than you. If this is something you really want, then it’s something you’ll really have to work for.” He also let Elizabeth know that if she wanted to do gymnastics purely for fun, that was just fine. But if she wanted to excel in the competitions, more was required. ~ Carol S Dweck
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169:I didn’t know people like this really existed,” Muse said. But she did. She saw them at Starbucks, the harried, doe-eyed women who thought a coffee shop was the perfect place for Mommy and Me hour, what with Brittany and Madison and Kyle in tow, all running around while the mommies—college graduates, former intellectuals—gabbed incessantly about their offspring as if no other child had ever existed. They gabbed about their poopies—yes, for real, their bowel movements!—and their first word and their social skills and their Montessori schools and their gymnastics and their Baby Einstein DVDs and they all had this brain-gone smile, like some alien had sucked their head dry, and Muse despised them on one level, pitied them on another and tried so damn hard not to be envious. Loren ~ Harlan Coben
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170:The first thing to consider is education. This is divided into two parts, music and gymnastics. Each has a wider meaning than at present: 'music' means everything that is in the province of the muses, and 'gymnastics' means everything concerned with physical training and fitness. 'Music' is almost as wide as what we should call 'culture', and 'gymnastics' is somewhat wider than what we call 'athletics'. Culture is to be devoted to making men gentlemen, in the sense which, largely owing to Plato, is familiar in England. The Athens of his day was, in one respect, analogous to England in the nineteenth century: there was in each an aristocracy enjoying wealth and social prestige, but having no monopoly of political power; and in each the aristocracy had to secure as much power as it could by means of impressive behaviour. ~ Anonymous
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171:Why is this painful journey so indispensable to the acquisition of true wisdom?…It is as if the mind were a squeamish organ that refused to entertain difficult truths unless encouraged to do so by difficult events. “Happiness is good for the body,” Proust tells us, “but it is grief which develops the strengths of the mind.” These griefs put us through a form of mental gymnastics which we would have avoided in happier times. Indeed, if a genuine priority is the development of our mental capacities, the implication is that we would be better off being unhappy than content, better off pursuing tormented love affairs than reading Plato or Spinoza. (Proust writes) A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and more vital than does a man of genius who interests us. ~ Alain de Botton
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172:Robert Davidson
I grew spiritually fat living off the souls of men.
If I saw a soul that was strong
I wounded its pride and devoured its strength.
The shelters of friendship knew my cunning,
For where I could steal a friend I did so.
And wherever I could enlarge my power
By undermining ambition, I did so,
Thus to make smooth my own.
And to triumph over other souls,
Just to assert and prove my superior strength,
Was with me a delight,
The keen exhilaration of soul gymnastics.
Devouring souls, I should have lived forever.
But their undigested remains bred in me a deadly nephritis,
With fear, restlessness, sinking spirits,
Hatred, suspicion, vision disturbed.
I collapsed at last with a shriek.
Remember the acorn;
It does not devour other acorns.
~ Edgar Lee Masters
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173:I cannot help feeling there is something essentially wrong about love. Friends may quarrel or drift apart, close relations too, but there is not this pang, this pathos, this fatality which clings to love. Friendship never has that doomed look. Why, what is the matter? I have not stopped loving you, but because I cannot go on kissing your dim dear face, we must part, we must part. Why is it so? What is this mysterious exclusiveness? One may have a thousand friends, but only one love-mate. Harems have nothing to do with this matter: I am speaking of dance, not gymnastics. Or can one imagine a tremendous Turk loving every one of his four hundred wives as I love you? For if I say ‘two’ I have started to count and there is no end to it. There is only one real number: One. And love, apparently, is the best exponent of this singularity. ~ Vladimir Nabokov
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174:I looked over at the others. "Anyone have tree-climbing issues?"
Obviously Ash and I didn't. Daniel, Hayley, and Corey said they'd be fine. Chloe hoped she would—she had gymnastics training. Mr. Bae joked that it would be his first time in a couple of decades. Derek said nothing.
"Derek?"
"It looks like I'll be the guy doing the distracting. I'm not trusting a tree branch to hold me."
"You're not playing decoy," Chloe said. She turned to us. "I'm sorry. I know that sounds like a cop-out, but he really can't. The last time we were in a fight against the St. Clouds, the orders were to tranq all of us except Derek. For him, it was shoot to kill. They don't trust werewolves."
"I think they've calmed down," Derek said. "They've been watching us for months and haven't tried to assassinate me yet."
Chloe put her hands on her hips. "And that's your definition of acceptance? Not going out of their way to kill you?" ~ Kelley Armstrong
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175:One German-American friend of mine, an architectural historian my own age, can be counted on to excoriate Woodrow Wilson after he has had several strong drinks. He goes on to say that it was Wilson who persuaded this country that it was patriotic to be stupid, to be proud of knowing only one language, of believing that all other cultures were inferior and ridiculous, offensive to God and common sense alike, that artists and teachers and studious persons in general were ninnies when it came to dealing with problems in life that really mattered, and on and on.
This friend says that it was a particular misfortune for this country that the German-Americans had achieved such eminence in the arts and education when it was their turn to be scorned from on high. To hate all they did and stood for at that time, which included gymnastics, by the way, was to lobotomize not only the German-Americans but our culture.
"That left American football," says my German-American friend, and someone is elected to drive him home. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
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176:I was thinking about Leon and our affinity for busyness, when I happened upon a book called In Praise of Slowness, written by Carl Honoré. In that book he describes a New Yorker cartoon that illustrates our dilemma. Two little girls are standing at a school-bus stop, each clutching a personal planner. One says to the other, “Okay, I’ll move ballet back an hour, reschedule gymnastics, and cancel piano. You shift your violin lessons to Thursday and skip soccer practice. That gives us from 3:15 to 3:45 on Wednesday the sixteenth to play.” This, I suppose, is how the madness starts. Pay close attention to the words Honoré uses to describe this fast-life/slow-life dichotomy. “Fast is busy, controlling, aggressive, hurried, analytical, stressed, superficial, impatient, active, quantity-over-quality. Slow is the opposite: calm, careful, receptive, intuitive, unhurried, patient, reflective, quality-over-quantity…. It is seeking to live at what musicians call the tempo giusto—the right speed.”* Which of those lifestyles would you prefer? ~ Philip Gulley
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177:Both Jew and Gentile enjoyed complexities, especially the Greeks with their philosophical systems. They loved mental gymnastics and intellectual labyrinths. They believed the truth was knowable, but only to those with elevated minds. This system later became known as gnosticism, a belief that certain people, by virtue of their enhanced reasoning powers, could move beyond the hoi polloi and ascend to the level of enlightenment. At the time of Paul, we can trace at least fifty different philosophies rattling around in the Roman and Greek world. And the gospel came along and said, “None of it matters. We’ll destroy it all. Take all the wisdom of the wise, get the best, get the elite, the most educated, the most capable, the smartest, the most clever, the best at rhetoric, oratory, logic; get all the wise, all the scribes, the legal experts, the great debaters, and they’re all going to be designated fools.” The gospel says they are all foolish. Paul’s quotation of Isaiah 29:14 in verse 19, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,” had to be an offensive statement to his audience. ~ John F MacArthur Jr
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178:we should take what is of value in knowledge, and leave the dross. Intellectual gymnastics are necessary at first. We must not go blindly into anything. The Yogi has passed the argumentative state, and has come to a conclusion, which is, like the rocks, immovable. The only thing he now seeks to do is to intensify that conclusion. Do not argue, he says; if one forces arguments upon you, be silent. Do not answer any argument, but go away calmly, because arguments only disturb the mind. The only thing necessary is to train the intellect, what is the use of disturbing it for nothing? The intellect is but a weak instrument, and can give us only knowledge limited by the senses. The Yogi wants to go beyond the senses, therefore intellect is of no use to him. He is certain of this and, therefore, is silent, and does not argue. Every argument throws his mind out of balance, creates a disturbance in the Chitta, and a disturbance is a drawback. Argumentations and searchings of the reason are only by the way. There are much higher things beyond them. The whole of life is not for schoolboy fights and debating societies. ~ Swami Vivekananda
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179:One more comment from the heart: I’m old fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised. Homo Ludens dances, sings, produces meaningful gestures, strikes poses, dresses up, revels and performs elaborate rituals. I don’t wish to diminish the significance of these distractions-without them human life would pass in unimaginable monotony and possibly dispersion and defeat. But these are group activities above which drifts a more or less perceptible whiff of collective gymnastics. Homo Ludens with a book is free. At least as free as he’s capable of being. He himself makes up the rules of the game, which are subject only to his own curiosity. He’s permitted to read intelligent books, from which he will benefit, as well as stupid ones, from which he may also learn something. He can stop before finishing one book, if he wishes, while starting another at the end and working his way back to the beginning. He may laugh in the wrong places or stop short at words he’ll keep for a life time. And finally, he’s free-and no other hobby can promise this-to eavesdrop on Montaigne’s arguments or take a quick dip in the Mesozoic. ~ Wis awa Szymborska
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180:Before every elementary school classroom had a 'Drop Everything and Read' period, before parents and educators agonized more about children being glued to Call of Duty or getting sucked into the vortex of the Internet, reading as a childhood activity was not always revered. Maybe it was in some families, in some towns, in some magical places that seemed to exist only in stories, but not where I was. Nobody trotted out the kid who read all the time as someone to be admired like the ones who did tennis and ballet and other feats requiring basic coordination.
While those other kids pursued their after-school activities in earnest, I failed at art, gymnastics, ice skating, soccer, and ballet with a lethal mix of inability, fear and boredom. Coerced into any group endeavor, I wished I could just be home already. Rainy days were a godsend because you could curl up on a sofa without being banished into the outdoors with an ominous 'Go play outside.'
Well into adulthood, I would chastise myself over not settling on a hobby—knitting or yoga or swing dancing or crosswords—and just reading instead. The default position. Everyone else had a passion; where was mine? How much happier I would have been to know that reading was itself a passion. Nobody treated it that way, and it didn't occur to me to think otherwise. ~ Pamela Paul
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181:Felke realized that prescribing herbal teas, homeopathic remedies, diet and water applications was not sufficient. Inspired by the examples of Rikli and Just, he envisioned a therapeutic setting close to nature where patients could escape their accustomed environments and enjoy the benefits of light, air, sun and healthful food. Surprisingly, the residents of the small rural town of Repelen immediately warmed to their new pastor's idea. A delegation undertook the arduous and costly journey to the Hartz mountains to inspect Just's Jungborn. This visit resulted in the formation of the Repelen Jungborn Society, Ltd., with eighty-one associates, mostly members of a local homeopathic lay society. With a capital of 50,000 goldmark, quite a high sum, the group purchased sixty acres of land, which included a forested area and a dead channel of the Rhine abounding in fish. Two large light and air parks, one for women and the other for men, were created and surrounded with high wooden fences. Naked patients took light, air, water and loam baths and engaged in gymnastics twice a day. Felke himself often directed the male patients. Inside the two parks approximately 50 air huts with two or four rooms each were erected. To guarantee maximum access to fresh air they had no doors or windows, only curtains for privacy. An open wooden hall in the center of the park was used for walking during the day, for gymnastics during bad weather and for sleeping on straw mats at night. In the beginning the spa offered friction sitz baths in flat zinc tubs as the only cold water application. Felke also took up Just's earth-and-sand bath, but it was not until he introduced the loam bath in 1912 that he gained fame as the "loam pastor. ~ Anonymous
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182:Yoga has been superficially misunderstood by certain Western writers, but its critics have never been its practitioners. Among many thoughtful tributes to yoga may be mentioned one by Dr. C. G. Jung, the famous Swiss psychologist. “When a religious method recommends itself as ‘scientific,’ it can be certain of its public in the West. Yoga fulfills this expectation,” Dr. Jung writes.10 “Quite apart from the charm of the new and the fascination of the half-understood, there is good cause for Yoga to have many adherents. It offers the possibility of controllable experience and thus satisfies the scientific need for ‘facts’; and, besides this, by reason of its breadth and depth, its venerable age, its doctrine and method, which include every phase of life, it promises undreamed-of possibilities. “Every religious or philosophical practice means a psychological discipline, that is, a method of mental hygiene. The manifold, purely bodily procedures of Yoga11 also mean a physiological hygiene which is superior to ordinary gymnastics and breathing exercises, inasmuch as it is not merely mechanistic and scientific, but also philosophical; in its training of the parts of the body, it unites them with the whole of the spirit, as is quite clear, for instance, in the Pranayama exercises where Prana is both the breath and the universal dynamics of the cosmos…. “Yoga practice...would be ineffectual without the concepts on which Yoga is based. It combines the bodily and the spiritual in an extraordinarily complete way. “In the East, where these ideas and practices have developed, and where for several thousand years an unbroken tradition has created the necessary spiritual foundations, Yoga is, as I can readily believe, the perfect and appropriate method of fusing body and mind together so that they form a unity which is scarcely to be questioned. This unity creates a psychological disposition which makes possible intuitions that transcend consciousness. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
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183:Classic Eastern and Western spiritual traditions identify three ways of approaching life: the way of action, the way of knowing, and the way of feeling. It is assumed that a full life involves all three, but at any given time a person tends to prefer one. It is not important to do psychological gymnastics to figure out which orientation you might have. It is critical, however, to recognize that neither love nor anything else of consequence can rightfully be reduced to one narrow vision. Love is feeling – tenderness, caring, and longing – but it is also much more. Love is action – kindness, charity, and commitment – and again, it is much more. Love is knowing – openness of attitude, realization of connectedness, expansion of attention beyond ourselves – and still it is more. . .
In both Eastern and Western spirituality, there is a fourth way, an appreciation that embraces action, feeling, and knowing and also seeks the “more” that love always is. . . In the West, it is called the contemplative way.
Contemplative moments can happen in crisis, excitement, and great activity, or in quiet stillness and simple appreciation. However it happens, contemplation and immerses us in the reality of the moment. We are no longer standing apart and reflecting upon our experience, we are vitally, consciously involved with what is going on. Everything is more clear, more real than it usually is.
. . . Contemplative appreciation is the fullest possible realization of love. The contemplative moments that come to us all as flashes of immediate presence or glimpses of the way life yearns to be lived. They are hints of the vast, graceful gift of love that has already been given to the family of humanity. The contemplative heart says, “only open your hands, receive the gift.” This does not mean we can control contemplation or that we can be contemplative at will. It is a gift that we can accept only as it is given. But it is given far more frequently, for more steadily than we could ever imagine. ~ Gerald G May
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184:In our family, we live by the Hard Thing Rule. It has three parts. The first is that everyone—including Mom and Dad—has to do a hard thing. A hard thing is something that requires daily deliberate practice. I’ve told my kids that psychological research is my hard thing, but I also practice yoga. Dad tries to get better and better at being a real estate developer; he does the same with running. My oldest daughter, Amanda, has chosen playing the piano as her hard thing. She did ballet for years, but later quit. So did Lucy. This brings me to the second part of the Hard Thing Rule: You can quit. But you can’t quit until the season is over, the tuition payment is up, or some other “natural” stopping point has arrived. You must, at least for the interval to which you’ve committed yourself, finish whatever you begin. In other words, you can’t quit on a day when your teacher yells at you, or you lose a race, or you have to miss a sleepover because of a recital the next morning. You can’t quit on a bad day. And, finally, the Hard Thing Rule states that you get to pick your hard thing. Nobody picks it for you because, after all, it would make no sense to do a hard thing you’re not even vaguely interested in. Even the decision to try ballet came after a discussion of various other classes my daughters could have chosen instead. Lucy, in fact, cycled through a half-dozen hard things. She started each with enthusiasm but eventually discovered that she didn’t want to keep going with ballet, gymnastics, track, handicrafts, or piano. In the end, she landed on viola. She’s been at it for three years, during which time her interest has waxed rather than waned. Last year, she joined the school and all-city orchestras, and when I asked her recently if she wanted to switch her hard thing to something else, she looked at me like I was crazy. Next year, Amanda will be in high school. Her sister will follow the year after. At that point, the Hard Thing Rule will change. A fourth requirement will be added: each girl must commit to at least one activity, either something new or the piano and viola they’ve already started, for at least two years. Tyrannical? I don’t believe it is. And if Lucy’s and Amanda’s recent comments on the topic aren’t disguised apple-polishing, neither do my daughters. They’d like to grow grittier as they get older, and, like any skill, they know grit takes practice. They know they’re fortunate to have the opportunity to do so. For parents who would like to encourage grit without obliterating their children’s capacity to choose their own path, I recommend the Hard Thing Rule. ~ Angela Duckworth
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185:Yoga has been superficially misunderstood by certain Western writers, but its critics have never been its practitioners. Among many thoughtful tributes to yoga may be mentioned one by Dr. C. G. Jung, the famous Swiss psychologist. “When a religious method recommends itself as ‘scientific,’ it can be certain of its public in the West. Yoga fulfills this expectation,” Dr. Jung writes (7). “Quite apart from the charm of the new, and the fascination of the half-understood, there is good cause for Yoga to have many adherents. It offers the possibility of controllable experience, and thus satisfies the scientific need of ‘facts,’ and besides this, by reason of its breadth and depth, its venerable age, its doctrine and method, which include every phase of life, it promises undreamed-of possibilities. “Every religious or philosophical practice means a psychological discipline, that is, a method of mental hygiene. The manifold, purely bodily procedures of Yoga (8) also mean a physiological hygiene which is superior to ordinary gymnastics and breathing exercises, inasmuch as it is not merely mechanistic and scientific, but also philosophical; in its training of the parts of the body, it unites them with the whole of the spirit, as is quite clear, for instance, in the Pranayama exercises where Prana is both the breath and the universal dynamics of the cosmos. “When the thing which the individual is doing is also a cosmic event, the effect experienced in the body (the innervation), unites with the emotion of the spirit (the universal idea), and out of this there develops a lively unity which no technique, however scientific, can produce. Yoga practice is unthinkable, and would also be ineffectual, without the concepts on which Yoga is based. It combines the bodily and the spiritual with each other in an extraordinarily complete way. “In the East, where these ideas and practices have developed, and where for several thousand years an unbroken tradition has created the necessary spiritual foundations, Yoga is, as I can readily believe, the perfect and appropriate method of fusing body and mind together so that they form a unity which is scarcely to be questioned. This unity creates a psychological disposition which makes possible intuitions that transcend consciousness.” The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self- control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men’s minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy. Finer forces of the human mind can and must liberate energies greater than those within stones and metals, lest the material atomic giant, newly unleashed, turn on the world in mindless destruction (9). ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
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186:Live or die, but don't poison everything...
Well, death's been here
for a long time --
it has a hell of a lot
to do with hell
and suspicion of the eye
and the religious objects
and how I mourned them
when they were made obscene
by my dwarf-heart's doodle.
The chief ingredient
is mutilation.
And mud, day after day,
mud like a ritual,
and the baby on the platter,
cooked but still human,
cooked also with little maggots,
sewn onto it maybe by somebody's mother,
the damn bitch!
Even so,
I kept right on going on,
a sort of human statement,
lugging myself as if
I were a sawed-off body
in the trunk, the steamer trunk.
This became perjury of the soul.
It became an outright lie
and even though I dressed the body
it was still naked, still killed.
It was caught
in the first place at birth,
like a fish.
But I play it, dressed it up,
dressed it up like somebody's doll.
Is life something you play?
And all the time wanting to get rid of it?
And further, everyone yelling at you
to shut up. And no wonder!
People don't like to be told
that you're sick
and then be forced
to watch
you
come
down with the hammer.
Today life opened inside me like an egg
and there inside
after considerable digging
I found the answer.
What a bargain!
There was the sun,
her yolk moving feverishly,
tumbling her prize --
and you realize she does this daily!
I'd known she was a purifier
but I hadn't thought
she was solid,
hadn't known she was an answer.
God! It's a dream,
lovers sprouting in the yard
like celery stalks
and better,
a husband straight as a redwood,
two daughters, two sea urchings,
picking roses off my hackles.
If I'm on fire they dance around it
and cook marshmallows.
And if I'm ice
they simply skate on me
in little ballet costumes.
Here,
all along,
thinking I was a killer,
anointing myself daily
with my little poisons.
But no.
I'm an empress.
I wear an apron.
My typewriter writes.
It didn't break the way it warned.
Even crazy, I'm as nice
as a chocolate bar.
Even with the witches' gymnastics
they trust my incalculable city,
my corruptible bed.
O dearest three,
I make a soft reply.
The witch comes on
and you paint her pink.
I come with kisses in my hood
and the sun, the smart one,
rolling in my arms.
So I say Live
and turn my shadow three times round
to feed our puppies as they come,
the eight Dalmatians we didn't drown,
despite the warnings: The abort! The destroy!
Despite the pails of water that waited,
to drown them, to pull them down like stones,
they came, each one headfirst, blowing bubbles the color of cataract-blue
and fumbling for the tiny tits.
Just last week, eight Dalmatians,
3/4 of a lb., lined up like cord wood
each
like a
birch tree.
I promise to love more if they come,
because in spite of cruelty
and the stuffed railroad cars for the ovens,
I am not what I expected. Not an Eichmann.
The poison just didn't take.
So I won't hang around in my hospital shift,
repeating The Black Mass and all of it.
I say Live, Live because of the sun,
the dream, the excitable gift. ~ Anne Sexton
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187:Live
Live or die, but don't poison everything…
Well, death's been here
for a long time it has a hell of a lot
to do with hell
and suspicion of the eye
and the religious objects
and how I mourned them
when they were made obscene
by my dwarf-heart's doodle.
The chief ingredient
is mutilation.
And mud, day after day,
mud like a ritual,
and the baby on the platter,
cooked but still human,
cooked also with little maggots,
sewn onto it maybe by somebody's mother,
the damn bitch!
Even so,
I kept right on going on,
a sort of human statement,
lugging myself as if
I were a sawed-off body
in the trunk, the steamer trunk.
This became perjury of the soul.
It became an outright lie
and even though I dressed the body
it was still naked, still killed.
It was caught
in the first place at birth,
like a fish.
But I play it, dressed it up,
dressed it up like somebody's doll.
Is life something you play?
And all the time wanting to get rid of it?
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And further, everyone yelling at you
to shut up. And no wonder!
People don't like to be told
that you're sick
and then be forced
to watch
you
come
down with the hammer.
Today life opened inside me like an egg
and there inside
after considerable digging
I found the answer.
What a bargain!
There was the sun,
her yolk moving feverishly,
tumbling her prize and you realize she does this daily!
I'd known she was a purifier
but I hadn't thought
she was solid,
hadn't known she was an answer.
God! It's a dream,
lovers sprouting in the yard
like celery stalks
and better,
a husband straight as a redwood,
two daughters, two sea urchings,
picking roses off my hackles.
If I'm on fire they dance around it
and cook marshmallows.
And if I'm ice
they simply skate on me
in little ballet costumes.
Here,
all along,
thinking I was a killer,
anointing myself daily
with my little poisons.
But no.
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I'm an empress.
I wear an apron.
My typewriter writes.
It didn't break the way it warned.
Even crazy, I'm as nice
as a chocolate bar.
Even with the witches' gymnastics
they trust my incalculable city,
my corruptible bed.
O dearest three,
I make a soft reply.
The witch comes on
and you paint her pink.
I come with kisses in my hood
and the sun, the smart one,
rolling in my arms.
So I say Live
and turn my shadow three times round
to feed our puppies as they come,
the eight Dalmatians we didn't drown,
despite the warnings: The abort! The destroy!
Despite the pails of water that waited,
to drown them, to pull them down like stones,
they came, each one headfirst, blowing bubbles the color of cataract-blue
and fumbling for the tiny tits.
Just last week, eight Dalmatians,
3/4 of a lb., lined up like cord wood
each
like a
birch tree.
I promise to love more if they come,
because in spite of cruelty
and the stuffed railroad cars for the ovens,
I am not what I expected. Not an Eichmann.
The poison just didn't take.
So I won't hang around in my hospital shift,
repeating The Black Mass and all of it.
I say Live, Live because of the sun,
the dream, the excitable gift.
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~ Anne Sexton
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188:
Sometimes while reading a text one has ideas, then Sweet Mother, how can one distinguish between the other person's idea and one's own?
Oh! This, this doesn't exist, the other person's idea and one's own idea.
Nobody has ideas of his own: it is an immensity from which one draws according to his personal affinity; ideas are a collective possession, a collective wealth.
Only, there are different stages. So there is the most common level, the one where all our brains bathe; this indeed swarms here, it is the level of "Mr. Everybody". And then there is a level that's slightly higher for people who are called thinkers. And then there are higher levels still - many - some of them are beyond words but they are still domains of ideas. And then there are those capable of shooting right up, catching something which is like a light and making it come down with all its stock of ideas, all its stock of thoughts. An idea from a higher domain if pulled down organises itself and is crystallised in a large number of thoughts which can express that idea differently; and then if you are a writer or a poet or an artist, when you make it come lower down still, you can have all kinds of expressions, extremely varied and choice around a single little idea but one coming from very high above. And when you know how to do this, it teaches you to distinguish between the pure idea and the way of expressing it.
Some people cannot do it in their own head because they have no imagination or faculty for writing, but they can do it through study by reading what others have written. There are, you know, lots of poets, for instance, who have expressed the same idea - the same idea but with such different forms that when one reads many of them it becomes quite interesting to see (for people who love to read and read much). Ah, this idea, that one has said it like this, that other has expressed it like that, another has formulated it in this way, and so on. And so you have a whole stock of expressions which are expressions by different poets of the same single idea up there, above, high above. And you notice that there is an almost essential difference between the pure idea, the typal idea and its formulation in the mental world, even the speculative or artistic mental world. This is a very good thing to do when one loves gymnastics. It is mental gymnastics.
Well, if you want to be truly intelligent, you must know how to do mental gymnastics; as, you see, if you want really to have a fairly strong body you must know how to do physical gymnastics. It is the same thing. People who have never done mental gymnastics have a poor little brain, quite over-simple, and all their life they think like children. One must know how to do this - not take it seriously, in the sense that one shouldn't have convictions, saying, "This idea is true and that is false; this formulation is correct and that one is not and this religion is the true one and that religion is false", and so on and so forth... this, if you enter into it, you become absolutely stupid.
But if you can see all that and, for example, take all the religions, one after another and see how they have expressed the same aspiration of the human being for some Absolute, it becomes very interesting; and then you begin... yes, you begin to be able to juggle with all that. And then when you have mastered it all, you can rise above it and look at all the eternal human discussions with a smile. So there you are master of the thought and can no longer fly into a rage because someone else does not think as you, something that's unfortunately a very common malady here.
Now, there we are. Nobody has any questions, no?
That's enough? Finished! ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1955,
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189:Mental Education
OF ALL lines of education, mental education is the most widely known and practised, yet except in a few rare cases there are gaps which make it something very incomplete and in the end quite insufficient.
Generally speaking, schooling is considered to be all the mental education that is necessary. And when a child has been made to undergo, for a number of years, a methodical training which is more like cramming than true schooling, it is considered that whatever is necessary for his mental development has been done. Nothing of the kind. Even conceding that the training is given with due measure and discrimination and does not permanently damage the brain, it cannot impart to the human mind the faculties it needs to become a good and useful instrument. The schooling that is usually given can, at the most, serve as a system of gymnastics to increase the suppleness of the brain. From this standpoint, each branch of human learning represents a special kind of mental gymnastics, and the verbal formulations given to these various branches each constitute a special and well-defined language.
A true mental education, which will prepare man for a higher life, has five principal phases. Normally these phases follow one after another, but in exceptional individuals they may alternate or even proceed simultaneously. These five phases, in brief, are:
(1) Development of the power of concentration, the capacity of attention.
(2) Development of the capacities of expansion, widening, complexity and richness.
(3) Organisation of one's ideas around a central idea, a higher ideal or a supremely luminous idea that will serve as a guide in life.
(4) Thought-control, rejection of undesirable thoughts, to become able to think only what one wants and when one wants.
(5) Development of mental silence, perfect calm and a more and more total receptivity to inspirations coming from the higher regions of the being.
It is not possible to give here all the details concerning the methods to be employed in the application of these five phases of education to different individuals. Still, a few explanations on points of detail can be given.
Undeniably, what most impedes mental progress in children is the constant dispersion of their thoughts. Their thoughts flutter hither and thither like butterflies and they have to make a great effort to fix them. Yet this capacity is latent in them, for when you succeed in arousing their interest, they are capable of a good deal of attention. By his ingenuity, therefore, the educator will gradually help the child to become capable of a sustained effort of attention and a faculty of more and more complete absorption in the work in hand. All methods that can develop this faculty of attention from games to rewards are good and can all be utilised according to the need and the circumstances. But it is the psychological action that is most important and the sovereign method is to arouse in the child an interest in what you want to teach him, a liking for work, a will to progress. To love to learn is the most precious gift that one can give to a child: to love to learn always and everywhere, so that all circumstances, all happenings in life may be constantly renewed opportunities for learning more and always more.
For that, to attention and concentration should be added observation, precise recording and faithfulness of memory. This faculty of observation can be developed by varied and spontaneous exercises, making use of every opportunity that presents itself to keep the child's thought wakeful, alert and prompt. The growth of the understanding should be stressed much more than that of memory. One knows well only what one has understood. Things learnt by heart, mechanically, fade away little by little and finally disappear; what is understood is never forgotten. Moreover, you must never refuse to explain to a child the how and the why of things. If you cannot do it yourself, you must direct the child to those who are qualified to answer or point out to him some books that deal with the question. In this way you will progressively awaken in the child the taste for true study and the habit of making a persistent effort to know.
This will bring us quite naturally to the second phase of development in which the mind should be widened and enriched.
You will gradually show the child that everything can become an interesting subject for study if it is approached in the right way. The life of every day, of every moment, is the best school of all, varied, complex, full of unexpected experiences, problems to be solved, clear and striking examples and obvious consequences. It is so easy to arouse healthy curiosity in children, if you answer with intelligence and clarity the numerous questions they ask. An interesting reply to one readily brings others in its train and so the attentive child learns without effort much more than he usually does in the classroom. By a choice made with care and insight, you should also teach him to enjoy good reading-matter which is both instructive and attractive. Do not be afraid of anything that awakens and pleases his imagination; imagination develops the creative mental faculty and through it study becomes living and the mind develops in joy.
In order to increase the suppleness and comprehensiveness of his mind, one should see not only that he studies many varied topics, but above all that a single subject is approached in various ways, so that the child understands in a practical manner that there are many ways of facing the same intellectual problem, of considering it and solving it. This will remove all rigidity from his brain and at the same time it will make his thinking richer and more supple and prepare it for a more complex and comprehensive synthesis. In this way also the child will be imbued with the sense of the extreme relativity of mental learning and, little by little, an aspiration for a truer source of knowledge will awaken in him.
Indeed, as the child grows older and progresses in his studies, his mind too ripens and becomes more and more capable of forming general ideas, and with them almost always comes a need for certitude, for a knowledge that is stable enough to form the basis of a mental construction which will permit all the diverse and scattered and often contradictory ideas accumulated in his brain to be organised and put in order. This ordering is indeed very necessary if one is to avoid chaos in one's thoughts. All contradictions can be transformed into complements, but for that one must discover the higher idea that will have the power to bring them harmoniously together. It is always good to consider every problem from all possible standpoints so as to avoid partiality and exclusiveness; but if the thought is to be active and creative, it must, in every case, be the natural and logical synthesis of all the points of view adopted. And if you want to make the totality of your thoughts into a dynamic and constructive force, you must also take great care as to the choice of the central idea of your mental synthesis; for upon that will depend the value of this synthesis. The higher and larger the central idea and the more universal it is, rising above time and space, the more numerous and the more complex will be the ideas, notions and thoughts which it will be able to organise and harmonise.
It goes without saying that this work of organisation cannot be done once and for all. The mind, if it is to keep its vigour and youth, must progress constantly, revise its notions in the light of new knowledge, enlarge its frame-work to include fresh notions and constantly reclassify and reorganise its thoughts, so that each of them may find its true place in relation to the others and the whole remain harmonious and orderly.
All that has just been said concerns the speculative mind, the mind that learns. But learning is only one aspect of mental activity; the other, which is at least equally important, is the constructive faculty, the capacity to form and thus prepare action. This very important part of mental activity has rarely been the subject of any special study or discipline. Only those who want, for some reason, to exercise a strict control over their mental activities think of observing and disciplining this faculty of formation; and as soon as they try it, they have to face difficulties so great that they appear almost insurmountable.
And yet control over this formative activity of the mind is one of the most important aspects of self-education; one can say that without it no mental mastery is possible. As far as study is concerned, all ideas are acceptable and should be included in the synthesis, whose very function is to become more and more rich and complex; but where action is concerned, it is just the opposite. The ideas that are accepted for translation into action should be strictly controlled and only those that agree with the general trend of the central idea forming the basis of the mental synthesis should be permitted to express themselves in action. This means that every thought entering the mental consciousness should be set before the central idea; if it finds a logical place among the thoughts already grouped, it will be admitted into the synthesis; if not, it will be rejected so that it can have no influence on the action. This work of mental purification should be done very regularly in order to secure a complete control over one's actions.
For this purpose, it is good to set apart some time every day when one can quietly go over one's thoughts and put one's synthesis in order. Once the habit is acquired, you can maintain control over your thoughts even during work and action, allowing only those which are useful for what you are doing to come to the surface. Particularly, if you have continued to cultivate the power of concentration and attention, only the thoughts that are needed will be allowed to enter the active external consciousness and they then become all the more dynamic and effective. And if, in the intensity of concentration, it becomes necessary not to think at all, all mental vibration can be stilled and an almost total silence secured. In this silence one can gradually open to the higher regions of the mind and learn to record the inspirations that come from there.
But even before reaching this point, silence in itself is supremely useful, because in most people who have a somewhat developed and active mind, the mind is never at rest. During the day, its activity is kept under a certain control, but at night, during the sleep of the body, the control of the waking state is almost completely removed and the mind indulges in activities which are sometimes excessive and often incoherent. This creates a great stress which leads to fatigue and the diminution of the intellectual faculties.
The fact is that like all the other parts of the human being, the mind too needs rest and it will not have this rest unless we know how to provide it. The art of resting one's mind is something to be acquired. Changing one's mental activity is certainly one way of resting; but the greatest possible rest is silence. And as far as the mental faculties are concerned a few minutes passed in the calm of silence are a more effective rest than hours of sleep.
When one has learned to silence the mind at will and to concentrate it in receptive silence, then there will be no problem that cannot be solved, no mental difficulty whose solution cannot be found. When it is agitated, thought becomes confused and impotent; in an attentive tranquillity, the light can manifest itself and open up new horizons to man's capacity. Bulletin, November 1951
~ The Mother, On Education,
#NFDB
35 Integral Yoga
4 Philosophy
3 Education
2 Yoga
1 Hinduism
24 The Mother
8 Nolini Kanta Gupta
7 Satprem
3 Sri Aurobindo
3 Plato
3 A B Purani
2 Swami Vivekananda
2 Nirodbaran
4 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
3 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
3 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
3 On Education
3 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
2 Words Of Long Ago
2 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
2 Some Answers From The Mother
2 Questions And Answers 1953
2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
0.06 - Letters to a Young Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If you read metaphysics and ethics, you must do it just as
mental gymnastics to give a little exercise to your brain, but
never lose sight of the fact that this is not a source of knowledge and that it is not in this way that one can draw close
0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It really is a problem to know how to create interest
in the students, whether in games, athletics or gymnastics. Even our own enthusiasm dwindles when we see
their lack of interest in everything.
05.13 - Darshana and Philosophy, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There is a mental approach to spiritual truths and there is a direct and immediate approach or rather contact. The mind sees as though through a mist, a darkling glass, a more or less opaque veil, and the thing envisaged presents a blurred and not unoften a deformed appearance. The mind has its own pre-dispositionsits own categories and terms, its own forms and figureswhich it has to use when it seeks to express that which is beyond it. Naturally the object, the truth as it is, it cannot apprehend or represent; it gives as it were the reverse side of an embroidery work. It goes round about the thing, has to take recourse to all kinds of contortions and gymnastics and grimaces to ape the natural gesture of the truth. But mind acts in this way, as a veil rather than' a medium, when one is stationed in it or below it and strains to look at what is above and beyond. On the other hand, if the consciousness is stationed above the mind, that is to say, if it has direct access or contact with the truth, the spiritual reality, in that case, mind need not act as a veil, it too can be made transparent, and sufflused with the higher light, it too can translate faithfully, present and embody the reality beyond somewhat as it actually is, in its native rhythm and figure and not diffracted and diffused through a hazy atmosphere.
06.12 - The Expanding Body-Consciousness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The field of our physical activity is very limited. If you look at it closely you will find it indeed extremely narrow and our capacities confined within a small circle. We are bound by the outline of our material body. I cannot, for instance, be sitting in my room and at the same time doing gymnastics in the playground. If you wish to do one thing you cannot do another; if you are at one place you cannot be at another simultaneously. How convenient it would be if while I was writing at the table, I could get there immediately a book from a far-off shelf for consultation without moving or taking anybody's help! And yet is the thing so very impossible? We know, for example, of extraordinaryat least, queerthings happening at what are called spirit sances, things that cannot be explained by the normal functioning of the physical senses; they are explained as interventions from the spirit world. In reality, however, spirits or ghosts have, in general, very little to do in this matter. It is action not of disembodied beings but of the normal human energiesespecially the vital or life energyfreed from the body's control and exerting itself independently. An example, a true fact that happened, will best illustrate what I mean to say.
06.17 - Directed Change, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A Page of Occult History Value of gymnastics Mental or Other
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part SixDirected Change
06.18 - Value of Gymnastics, Mental or Other, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
object:06.18 - Value of gymnastics, Mental or Other
author class:Nolini Kanta Gupta
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Directed Change Mental Silence
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part SixValue of gymnasticsMental or Other
Value of gymnasticsMental or Other
Intellectual activity is a kind of gymnastics. What is the value of physical gymnastics? It develops the muscles, makes them strong, supple and agile. But simply to develop them, to make them grow as much as possible or to take delight in a mere muscle-bound body is not the ideal; it rather frustrates the very object of gymnastics. The object is to develop, streng then, shape all the limbs of the body and organise and harmonise them into a beautiful and capable whole. A particular exercise is not to be indulged in for its own sake: all the energy of the body turned to that alone and the whole attention devoted to that one thing. An exclusive concentration upon a single physical feat does not bring out the full capacity of the body. It is to that end, the fullness of the body potential, that the culture of the bodily limbs is to be directed. In the same way, mental culture the power of thinking, reasoning, arguinghas its value in its relation to the total culture of the mind and consciousness. There are higher regions of consciousness beyond the reach of the intellect; and you have to stop all intellectual activity, make your mind a total blank before you can hope to reach there. And indulgence even in so-called higher or philosophical speculations can only block the way to the true consciousness and knowledge. And yet you cannot leave the intellectual faculties uncared for or undeveloped on the plea that something higher is needed. In the physical body it need not be your ideal to become a muscle man; but neither would you like to have frail, ill-grown, rickety limbs that are weak and unshapely. With regard to your mental body too it would not serve any purpose to have a mind or intellect that is unable to think powerfully, cogently, closely.
It is harmful when you take to mental gymnastics only for its own sake, to exclusive intellectual acrobaticsdiscussions, disputations, verbal quibbles, etc., etc.; in that case the result attained is a disproportionate growth. But the development of the mind, even of the logical mind, can be and must be made part of the integral development, it must attain its true form, stature and strength, as a help towards and finally as an expression in its own field of the divinity, the highest and richest consciousness in man, even as the body too is to express and make concrete the supreme beauty and vigour of the perfect being.
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06.19 - Mental Silence, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Value of gymnasticsMental or Other Mind, Origin of Separative Consciousness
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part SixMental Silence
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Value of gymnasticsMental or Other Mind, Origin of Separative Consciousness
08.08 - The Mind s Bazaar, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In fact, if you wish to be truly intelligent, you must learn a bit of mental gymnastics, even as you have to do physical gymnastics if you wish to have a strong powerful body. People who have never done mental gymnastics have a small elementary brain; all their life they think like children. Mental exercise means that you must know how to do it and do it seriously. First of all, it means that you must not have fixed convictions, namely, that this idea is right and that one is wrong, this formulation is correct, the other one is inexact or that this religion is true, the other is false and so on. If you go on in that train you become very soon stupid, a blockhead. What you have to do, say, in the matter of religion, is to take up all the religions one by one and see how all have expressed the same human aspiration for the Absolute of some kind. You can compare and contrast, understand, weigh and balance, the game will be extremely interesting. Now, when you have mastered all the ideas, seized all the modes of expression, you can try to go beyond, look at them and smile at the eternal wranglings mankind indulges in. You are then master of your mind and no longer subject to what seems to be the commonest habit of mankindgetting into a fury simply because someone else does not happen to think like you.
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1.02 - SADHANA PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
of value in knowledge, and leave the dross. All these
intellectual gymnastics are necessary at first. We must not go
blindly into anything. The Yogi has passed the argumentative
1.02 - The Recovery, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
Another imposition placed on him by the doctor was that in order to tone up his body he had to do some free-hand exercises. Every morning while still in bed, he would, without fail, practise them vigorously the flexion and extension of his arms and the raising and lowering of his legs. Sometimes the arms overcome by sleep would sink into feeble, mechanical movements and then would wake up with a start to resume their duty! The summer heat or an uncomfortable position in bed could not persuade him to break the rule. When I entered the room for my morning work, this assiduous application would greet my eyes. His leg would rise and fall like a hammer, and I could not contain my feeling of amusement and admiration at this hard Tapasya to achieve the supramental perfection of the body. Perhaps this semi-blasphemy has come upon me like a boomerang, now making me undergo physical Tapasya even at this age! It cannot be denied, anyway, that Sri Aurobindo was not meant for such hard and rough gymnastics. There are some things which cannot be conceived of, for instance Tagore or Dilip courting jail during the Non-cooperation movement.
1.05 - Mental Education, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Generally speaking, schooling is considered to be all the mental education that is necessary. And when a child has been made to undergo, for a number of years, a methodical training which is more like cramming than true schooling, it is considered that whatever is necessary for his mental development has been done. Nothing of the kind. Even conceding that the training is given with due measure and discrimination and does not permanently damage the brain, it cannot impart to the human mind the faculties it needs to become a good and useful instrument. The schooling that is usually given can, at the most, serve as a system of gymnastics to increase the suppleness of the brain. From this standpoint, each branch of human learning represents a special kind of mental gymnastics, and the verbal formulations given to these various branches each constitute a special and well-defined language.
1.09 - SKIRMISHES IN A WAY WITH THE AGE, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
to Plato's style might be defined rather as an erotic competition, as a
continuation and a spiritualisation of the old agonal gymnastics and
the conditions on which they depend.... What was the ultimate outcome
1.10 - Concentration - Its Practice, #Raja-Yoga, #Swami Vivkenanda, #unset
Those Samdhis with which we ended our last chapter are very difficult to attain; so we must take them up slowly. The first step, the preliminary step, is called Kriya-yoga. Literally this means work, working towards Yoga. The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the body is the chariot. The master of the household, the King, the Self of man, is sitting in this chariot. If the horses are very strong and do not obey the rein, if the charioteer, the intellect, does not know how to control the horses, then the chariot will come to grief. But if the organs, the horses, are well controlled, and if the rein, the mind, is well held in the hands of the charioteer, the intellect, the chariot reaches the goal. What is meant, therefore, by this mortification? Holding the rein firmly while guiding the body and the organs; not letting them do anything they like, but keeping them both under proper control. Study. What is meant by study in this case? No study of novels or story books, but study of those works which teach the liberation of the Soul. Then again this study does not mean controversial studies at all. The Yogi is supposed to have finished his period of controversy. He has had enough of that, and has become satisfied. He only studies to intensify his convictions. Vda and Siddhnta these are the two sorts of scriptural knowledge Vada (the argumentative) and Siddhanta (the decisive). When a man is entirely ignorant he takes up the first of these, the argumentative fighting, and reasoning pro and con; and when he has finished that he takes up the Siddhanta, the decisive, arriving at a conclusion. Simply arriving at this conclusion will not do. It must be intensified. Books are infinite in number, and time is short; therefore the secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it. There is an old Indian legend that if you place a cup of milk and water before a Rja-Hamsa (swan), he will take all the milk and leave the water. In that way we should take what is of value in knowledge, and leave the dross. Intellectual gymnastics are necessary at first. We must not go blindly into anything. The Yogi has passed the argumentative state, and has come to a conclusion, which is, like the rocks, immovable. The only thing he now seeks to do is to intensify that conclusion. Do not argue, he says; if one forces arguments upon you, be silent. Do not answer any argument, but go away calmly, because arguments only disturb the mind. The only thing necessary is to train the intellect, what is the use of disturbing it for nothing? The intellect is but a weak instrument, and can give us only knowledge limited by the senses. The Yogi wants to go beyond the senses, therefore intellect is of no use to him. He is certain of this and, therefore, is silent, and does not argue. Every argument throws his mind out of balance, creates a disturbance in the Chitta, and a disturbance is a drawback. Argumentations and searchings of the reason are only by the way. There are much higher things beyond them. The whole of life is not for schoolboy fights and debating societies. "Surrendering the fruits of work to God" is to take to ourselves neither credit nor blame, but to give up both to the Lord and be at peace.
1.11 - Correspondence and Interviews, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
All the communications were, however, mostly made orally and did not interfere with Sri Aurobindo's personal work. But gradually correspondence of another sort began to demand his attention. I mean writings on various aspects of his work, either by sadhaks, visitors or outsiders, were sent to him for approval, comment or suggestion, such as Prof. Sisir Maitra's series of articles, Prof. Haridas Chowdhury's thesis on his philosophy, Prof. Sisir Mitra's book on history, books by Prof. Langley, Morwenna Donnelly, Prof. Monod-Herzen, Dr. Srinivas Iyengar, and Lizelle Raymond on Sister Nivedita, to mention a few. In the last three books Sri Aurobindo made extensive additions and changes. Even casual articles from young students were read and received encouragement from him. Arabinda Basu was one of these writers. Poems written by sadhaks, for instance, Dilip, Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna), Nishikanto, Pujalal and Tehmi, or a Goan poet, Prof. Menezies, were also read out. Then came the journals, The Advent and Mother India, the latter particularly, being a semi-political fortnightly, needed his sanction before the matter could be published. Most of the editorial articles of Mother India written by Amal Kiran were found impeccable. But on a few occasions small but significant changes were telegraphically made. Sri Aurobindo's famous message on Korea with its prediction of Stalinist communism's designs on South East Asia and India through Tibet, was originally sent in private to Amal Kiran for his guidance. One of the editorials was based on it. Sri Aurobindo declared privately that Mother India was his paper. When the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education was launched, the Mother wanted to initiate it with an article from Sri Aurobindo. Some days passed. She asked him if he had started writing it. He answered with a smile, "No." After a few days, she reminded him of the urgency. Then he began dictating on the value of sports and physical gymnastics. Quite a series commenced and the most memorable of the lot was the article "The Divine Body". It was a long piece and took more than a week, since we daily had just about an hour to spare. As he was dictating, I marvelled at so much knowledge of Ancient Greece and Ancient India stored up somewhere in his superconscious memory and now pouring down at his command in a smooth flow. No notes were consulted, no books were needed, yet after a lapse of so many decades everything was fresh, spontaneous and recalled in vivid detail! This article, like his others, was then read out to the Mother in front of Sri Aurobindo. She exclaimed, "Magnificent!" Sri Aurobindo simply smiled. All of them have appeared in book-form called The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth.
1.11 - The Change of Power, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
But this change of power, this transition from the indirect and abstract truths of the mind to the direct and concrete Truth of the great Self is obviously not effected on the summits of the Spirit it has nothing to do with mental gymnastics, just as the other power had nothing to do with the ape's skills. It is effected in a most down-to-earth way, in everyday life, in the minuscule, the futility of the moment, which is futile only to us, if we understand that a speck of dust contains as much truth as the totality of all space, and just as much power. It therefore applies itself to utterly material mechanisms. The play takes place in the substance. Therefore it comes up against age-old resistances, against a bubble that is perhaps the first self-defensive bubble of the protoplasm in its water hole. But in the end resistances turn out to have assisted by the resistance much more than they have impeded the intention of the great Creatrix and her Mover,26 and we do not know, finally, if there is a single shadow and pain that does not secretly build up the very power we are trying to manifest. If it emerged too soon, truth would be incomplete, or unbearable for the other animalcules that share our water hole and which would soon disgorge it we are a single human body, we always forget, and our mistakes or slowness are the mistakes and slowness of the world. But if we can win a victory here, in this little point of matter, each of us human beings has a formidable task to carry out, if he understands. Being born in this world is a far more powerful mystery than we had thought.
1929-07-28 - Art and Yoga - Art and life - Music, dance - World of Harmony, #Questions And Answers 1929-1931, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Look again at what the moderns have made of the dance; compare it with what the dance once was. The dance was once one of the highest expressions of the inner life; it was associated with religion and it was an important limb in sacred ceremony, in the celebration of festivals, in the adoration of the Divine. In some countries it reached a very high degree of beauty and an extraordinary perfection. In Japan they kept up the tradition of the dance as a part of the religious life and, because the strict sense of beauty and art is a natural possession of the Japanese, they did not allow it to degenerate into something of lesser significance and smaller purpose. It was the same in India. It is true that in our days there have been attempts to resuscitate the ancient Greek and other dances; but the religious sense is missing in all such resurrections and they look more like rhythmic gymnastics than dance.
1951-01-15 - Sincerity - inner discernment - inner light. Evil and imbalance. Consciousness and instruments., #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If physically you are badly built, badly set up, it will be difficult for you, even with good training, to do gymnastics as well as one with a beautiful well-built body. It is the same with the mindone who has a well-organised mind, complex, complete, refined, will express himself much better than one who has a rather mediocre or badly organised mind. First of all, you must educate your consciousness, become conscious of yourself, organise your consciousness according to your ideal, but at the same time do not neglect the instruments which are in your body.
1951-02-26 - On reading books - gossip - Discipline and realisation - Imaginary stories- value of - Private lives of big men - relaxation - Understanding others - gnostic consciousness, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Naturally, the effort to keep the consciousness at a high level is tiring in the beginning, like the exercises you do to develop your muscles. But you do not give up gymnastics because of that! So mentally also you must do the same thing. You must not allow your mind to stoop low: gossiping degrades you and, if you want to do Yoga, you must abstain from it, thats all.
1951-03-12 - Mental forms - learning difficult subjects - Mental fortress - thought - Training the mind - Helping the vital being after death - ceremonies - Human stupidities, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But it is as with gymnastics. You make all kinds of movements to form your body and make it strong, but that does not mean that you are going to spend all your life lifting weights and exercising on parallel bars! You may continue to do that as a pastime, as a profession, but surely it is not the supreme goal. For the mind it is the same thing. To have a mind capable of progressing, of adapting itself to a new life, of opening itself to higher forces, it must be put through all kinds of gymnastics. That is why children are sent to school, it is not in order that they may remember all that they learnwho remembers what he has learnt? When they are obliged to teach others, later on, they have to relearn it all, they have forgotten everything. It comes back quickly, but they have forgotten it. But if they had never gone to school, if they had never learned and had to begin everything well, when you begin to do parallel bars at forty-five, it hurts, doesnt it? It is the same thing for the brain, it lacks plasticity. Do you know what the best gymnastics is? It is to have a daily conversation with a metaphysician because there is nothing concrete there, you cannot concentrate on something that has a form, an objective reality; indeed, everything is carried on exclusively with words in a field of abstraction, it is purely mental gymnastics. And if you can enter into the mental formation of a metaphysician and are able to understand and answer him, it is perfect gymnastics!
1953-06-24, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In gymnastics when I want to take a jump and feel frightened, why does this happen?
1953-09-16, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is possible. When you do gymnastics, is it not to make your body less rigid? And you go on progressing: what you cannot do the first year, you are able to do after a few years. There are people who obtain an almost total suppleness, those, for example, who do Asanas. Yes, one can obtain almost complete suppleness. But an ordinary man, if he tried to do these exercises, would break something in him. Well, it happens like that. With the mind, it is the same thing. It is through gymnastic exercises that you make yourself supple. It is a question of discipline, of development.
1955-11-23 - One reality, multiple manifestations - Integral Yoga, approach by all paths - The supreme man and the divine man - Miracles and the logic of events, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This is what Sri Aurobindo tells you: that you cannot stop, you cannot be satisfied until you have felt absolutely concretely that there is only one single Divine, there is only one single Reality, and that, from whatever angle It is seen or whatever path is taken to attain It, it will always be one sole and same thing which you will meet. So one who is developed enough, vast enough to be able to follow what we call the Integral Yoga, must have the capacity to approach the Divine by all possible paths. If he doesnt want to follow them himself because it takes time though there is a certain degree of development which enables one in a few days or a few hours to follow a path which would otherwise take a whole lifetime still, if one has no taste for this kind of gymnastics, at least one should have an understanding open enough to be aware that all this is fundamentally one sole and identical thing. And whether you give it this name or that or no name at all, you understand, or several names, you are always speaking of the same thing which is the single Divine who is all things.
1956-11-21 - Knowings and Knowledge - Reason, summit of mans mental activities - Willings and the true will - Personal effort - First step to have knowledge - Relativity of medical knowledge - Mental gymnastics make the mind supple, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
object:1956-11-21 - Knowings and Knowledge - Reason, summit of mans mental activities - Willings and the true will - Personal effort - First step to have knowledge - Relativity of medical knowledge - Mental gymnastics make the mind supple
author class:The Mother
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I have always said that studies have the same effect on the brain as gymnastics on the muscles. For example, mental gymnastics are very necessary to make ones mental activity supple, to streng then and enrich it and give it a subtlety of understanding it would not have if you didnt do these gymnastics. Of lateindeed for quite a long time already I have noticed, for instance, that if I am unfortunate enough to read to you something with philosophical terms or to speak to you from a slightly philosophical point of view, you cannot follow. And that is simply because you have not done any philosophical gymnastics. It is not that you are not intelligent, it is not that you dont have the capacity to understand: it is because you havent done the proper gymnastics. I could tell you the same thing in another way: you have not learnt the language. But the same words are used, only with a slightly different relation between them, with different turns of phrase, with a different mental attitude to things. Well, this difference of attitude you cannot have unless you have done the corresponding gymnastics. And it is very easy for you to understand this example, for you all know very well that you could never do your athletic exercises if you were not trained. Even if you have special abilities, even if you are gifted, if you do not practise and train yourself, you cannot do them. Consider all your agility exercises, if you were asked to do them on the first day, you could not, it would be quite impossible, and you know it very well. If someone were to tell you spontaneously, Ah! now do thissay, a certain kind of jump, what used to be called the flying somersaultyou would say, This person is truly unreasonable, it is impossible! Well, this is the same thing; if I take certain books and read them to you, you cannot follow because you have completely neglected philosophical mental gymnastics. It is exactly the same thing if someone who has not done mathematics is asked to follow a mathematical reasoninghe wont be able to. And so, this means that if you want to express fully, totally, the deeper reality of your being, you will express it in a much richer, more integral, more varied, more productive way if all the parts of your being are fully developed like this by appropriate gymnastics.
I believe I have already explained this to you once. If it were a question of leading what till today was considered the true spiritual life, that is, of giving up altoge ther all physical activities in order to unite with the supreme divine Reality and remain in this union, of leaving life and all outer expression and going away into Nirvana, into an identity which not only will no longer be expressed in the world, but which takes you out of the world completely, then it is obvious that all these gymnastics, whether physical, vital, sensory or mental, are absolutely useless, and that those people considered all this simply a waste of time and quite futile. But for us who want to realise almost the very opposite, that is, who, after having identified ourselves with the supreme Reality, want to make It descend into life and transform the world, if we offer to this Reality instruments which are refined, rich, developed, fully conscious, the work of transformation will be more effective.
1957-11-13 - Superiority of man over animal - Consciousness precedes form, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We shall see this as we read on; then you will have to do philosophical gymnastics. But anyway, even without philosophy and mental gymnastics, it is obvious that to make something, you need to have something to make it with.
1958-01-22 - Intellectual theories - Expressing a living and real Truth, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When one has an essentially practical bent for accomplishing things, one always feels that all these speculations, arguments, deductions are a more or less interesting occupation for idle people. But I dare not say this too loud, for it is not appreciated by intellectuals, this has always seemed to me a gymnastic exercise thats very interesting from the point of view of mental development, but without much practical result. Now, if you listen to people with an abstract turn of mind, they will tell you that physical gymnastics are a thoroughly futile occupation without any practical result: Whats the use of doing gymnastics? It is simply to exercise your muscles. And why should we not exercise our mental muscles as you exercise the muscles of your body? And both arguments are of equal value.
1958-06-18 - Philosophy, religion, occultism, spirituality, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As for spiritual philosophy, only the few who have a fairly complete mental development and are fully conscious on the intellectual plane, can usefully adopt this method; otherwise it is a dead letter for all those who dont have an ability for mental gymnastics and so cannot follow all the acrobatics of the mind.
1961-05-23, #Agenda Vol 02, #unset, #Kabbalah
Its obviously a type of filariasis which obstinately refuses to go away, but anyway. It causes only one inconvenience now: it makes the legs very weakvery weak. I go through what seem like terrible gymnastics to climb the stairs. Other than that it doesnt matter. From time to time it pricks, it stings, it bites, it swells up but its nothing.
1962-07-07, #Agenda Vol 03, #unset, #Kabbalah
And what if you tell them we do gymnastics and have a swimming pool!
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This is something theyll understand that were not a bunch of defrocked monks meditating in a circle, but that all lifes activities are accepted and everyone keeps busy: the writer writes, the painter paints, the children do gymnastics; that, they will understand.
1965-06-18 - supramental ship, #Agenda Vol 06, #unset, #Kabbalah
Satprem meant that he found it hard to see how the new substance, nevertheless very different from Matter, could be prepared through gymnastics for the physical body.
1966-03-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #unset, #Kabbalah
It may be good to remind you that we are here for a special work, a work not done anywhere else: we want to come into contact with the supreme consciousness, the universal consciousness, we want to receive it and manifest it. For that, we need a very solid base, and our base is our physical being, our body. We therefore need to prepare a solid, healthy, enduring body, skillful, agile and strong, so it may be ready for anything. There is no better way to prepare the body than physical exercises: sports, athletics, gymnastics and all other games are the best means to develop and streng then the body.
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Gymnastics
Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics Men's rope climbing
Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 1900 Summer Olympics
Gymnastics at the 1904 Summer Olympics Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1904 Summer Olympics Men's club swinging
Gymnastics at the 1904 Summer Olympics Men's combined
Gymnastics at the 1904 Summer Olympics Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 1904 Summer Olympics Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 1904 Summer Olympics Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 1904 Summer Olympics Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 1904 Summer Olympics Men's rope climbing
Gymnastics at the 1904 Summer Olympics Men's triathlon
Gymnastics at the 1904 Summer Olympics Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 1906 Intercalated Games
Gymnastics at the 1908 Summer Olympics Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1912 Summer Olympics Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1920 Summer Olympics Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1924 Summer Olympics Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1924 Summer Olympics Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 1924 Summer Olympics Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 1924 Summer Olympics Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 1924 Summer Olympics Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 1924 Summer Olympics Men's rope climbing
Gymnastics at the 1924 Summer Olympics Men's sidehorse vault
Gymnastics at the 1924 Summer Olympics Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 1928 Summer Olympics Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1928 Summer Olympics Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 1928 Summer Olympics Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 1928 Summer Olympics Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 1928 Summer Olympics Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 1928 Summer Olympics Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 1932 Summer Olympics Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1932 Summer Olympics Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 1932 Summer Olympics Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 1932 Summer Olympics Men's Indian clubs
Gymnastics at the 1932 Summer Olympics Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 1932 Summer Olympics Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 1932 Summer Olympics Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 1932 Summer Olympics Men's rope climbing
Gymnastics at the 1932 Summer Olympics Men's tumbling
Gymnastics at the 1932 Summer Olympics Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 1936 Summer Olympics Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1936 Summer Olympics Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 1936 Summer Olympics Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 1936 Summer Olympics Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 1936 Summer Olympics Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 1936 Summer Olympics Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 1936 Summer Olympics Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics Women's floor exercise
Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics Women's individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics Women's rhythmic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics Women's rhythmic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics Women's rhythmic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics Women's rhythmic group all-around
Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics Women's rhythmic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics Women's rhythmic qualification
Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics Men's artistic qualification
Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics Men's trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics Women's artistic qualification
Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics Women's rhythmic group all-around
Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics Women's rhythmic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics Women's rhythmic qualification
Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics Women's trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 2002 Asian Games Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2002 Asian Games Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 2002 Asian Games Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 2002 Asian Games Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 2002 Asian Games Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 2002 Asian Games Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 2002 Asian Games Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 2002 Asian Games Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2002 Asian Games Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 2002 Asian Games Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 2002 Asian Games Women's rhythmic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2002 Asian Games Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 2002 Asian Games Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics Men's artistic qualification
Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics Men's trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics Women's artistic qualification
Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics Women's rhythmic group all-around
Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics Women's rhythmic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics Women's rhythmic qualification
Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics Women's trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
Gymnastics at the 2005 National Games of China
Gymnastics at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games
Gymnastics at the 2006 Asian Games Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2006 Asian Games Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 2006 Asian Games Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 2006 Asian Games Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 2006 Asian Games Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 2006 Asian Games Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 2006 Asian Games Men's trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2006 Asian Games Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 2006 Asian Games Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2006 Asian Games Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 2006 Asian Games Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 2006 Asian Games Women's rhythmic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2006 Asian Games Women's trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2006 Asian Games Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 2006 Asian Games Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 2007 Pan American Games
Gymnastics at the 2007 Southeast Asian Games
Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics Men's artistic qualification
Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics Men's trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics Qualification
Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics Women's artistic qualification
Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics Women's rhythmic group all-around
Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics Women's rhythmic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics Women's trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 2009 Mediterranean Games
Gymnastics at the 2009 World Games
Gymnastics at the 2010 Asian Games Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2010 Asian Games Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 2010 Asian Games Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 2010 Asian Games Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 2010 Asian Games Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 2010 Asian Games Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 2010 Asian Games Men's trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2010 Asian Games Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 2010 Asian Games Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2010 Asian Games Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 2010 Asian Games Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 2010 Asian Games Women's rhythmic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2010 Asian Games Women's trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2010 Asian Games Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 2010 Asian Games Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Gymnastics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Men's artistic qualification
Gymnastics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Women's rhythmic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Women's rhythmic individual ball
Gymnastics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Women's rhythmic individual hoop
Gymnastics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Women's rhythmic individual ribbon
Gymnastics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Women's rhythmic individual rope
Gymnastics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Men's artistic qualification
Gymnastics at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Men's trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Women's artistic qualification
Gymnastics at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Women's rhythmic group all-around
Gymnastics at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Women's rhythmic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Women's trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 2011 Pan American Games
Gymnastics at the 2011 Pan American Games Men's artistic qualification
Gymnastics at the 2011 Pan American Games Men's trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2011 Pan American Games Qualification
Gymnastics at the 2011 Pan American Games Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2011 Pan American Games Women's artistic qualification
Gymnastics at the 2011 Pan American Games Women's rhythmic group 3 ribbons + 2 hoops
Gymnastics at the 2011 Pan American Games Women's rhythmic group 5 balls
Gymnastics at the 2011 Pan American Games Women's rhythmic group all-around
Gymnastics at the 2011 Pan American Games Women's rhythmic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2011 Pan American Games Women's rhythmic individual ball
Gymnastics at the 2011 Pan American Games Women's rhythmic individual club
Gymnastics at the 2011 Pan American Games Women's rhythmic individual hoop
Gymnastics at the 2011 Pan American Games Women's rhythmic individual ribbon
Gymnastics at the 2011 Pan American Games Women's trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2011 Pan American Games Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 2011 Summer Universiade Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2011 Summer Universiade Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 2011 Summer Universiade Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics Men's artistic qualification
Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics Men's trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics Qualification
Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics Women's artistic qualification
Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics Women's rhythmic group all-around
Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics Women's rhythmic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics Women's trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 2013 Summer Universiade Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2013 Summer Universiade Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 2013 Summer Universiade Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 2013 Summer Universiade Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 2013 Summer Universiade Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 2014 Asian Games Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2014 Asian Games Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 2014 Asian Games Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 2014 Asian Games Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 2014 Asian Games Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 2014 Asian Games Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 2014 Asian Games Men's trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2014 Asian Games Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 2014 Asian Games Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2014 Asian Games Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 2014 Asian Games Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 2014 Asian Games Women's rhythmic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2014 Asian Games Women's trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2014 Asian Games Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 2014 Asian Games Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Men's artistic pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Women's rhythmic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Women's rhythmic individual ball
Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Women's rhythmic individual clubs
Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Women's rhythmic individual hoop
Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Women's rhythmic individual ribbon
Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 2014 Pan American Sports Festival
Gymnastics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Boys' artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Boys' artistic qualification
Gymnastics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Boys' trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Boys' vault
Gymnastics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Girls' artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Girls' artistic qualification
Gymnastics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Girls' balance beam
Gymnastics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Girls' floor
Gymnastics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Girls' rhythmic group all-around
Gymnastics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Girls' rhythmic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Girls' trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Girls' uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Girls' vault
Gymnastics at the 2015 African Games
Gymnastics at the 2015 European Games Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2015 European Games Men's floor exercise
Gymnastics at the 2015 European Games Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 2015 European Games Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 2015 European Games Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 2015 European Games Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 2015 European Games Men's synchronized trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2015 European Games Men's trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2015 European Games Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 2015 European Games Qualification
Gymnastics at the 2015 European Games Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2015 European Games Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 2015 European Games Women's floor exercise
Gymnastics at the 2015 European Games Women's rhythmic group 2 hoops and 6 clubs
Gymnastics at the 2015 European Games Women's rhythmic group 5 ribbons
Gymnastics at the 2015 European Games Women's rhythmic group all-around
Gymnastics at the 2015 European Games Women's rhythmic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2015 European Games Women's rhythmic individual ball
Gymnastics at the 2015 European Games Women's rhythmic individual clubs
Gymnastics at the 2015 European Games Women's rhythmic individual hoop
Gymnastics at the 2015 European Games Women's rhythmic individual ribbon
Gymnastics at the 2015 European Games Women's synchronized trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2015 European Games Women's trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2015 European Games Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 2015 European Games Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 2015 Pan American Games
Gymnastics at the 2015 Pan American Games Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2015 Pan American Games Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 2015 Pan American Games Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 2015 Pan American Games Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 2015 Pan American Games Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 2015 Pan American Games Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 2015 Pan American Games Men's trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2015 Pan American Games Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 2015 Pan American Games Qualification
Gymnastics at the 2015 Pan American Games Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2015 Pan American Games Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 2015 Pan American Games Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 2015 Pan American Games Women's rhythmic group 5 ribbons
Gymnastics at the 2015 Pan American Games Women's rhythmic group 6 clubs + 2 hoops
Gymnastics at the 2015 Pan American Games Women's rhythmic group all-around
Gymnastics at the 2015 Pan American Games Women's rhythmic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2015 Pan American Games Women's rhythmic individual ball
Gymnastics at the 2015 Pan American Games Women's rhythmic individual club
Gymnastics at the 2015 Pan American Games Women's rhythmic individual hoop
Gymnastics at the 2015 Pan American Games Women's rhythmic individual ribbon
Gymnastics at the 2015 Pan American Games Women's trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2015 Pan American Games Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 2015 Pan American Games Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games Women's rhythmic group all-around
Gymnastics at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games Women's rhythmic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 2015 Summer Universiade Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2015 Summer Universiade Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 2015 Summer Universiade Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 2015 Summer Universiade Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 2015 Summer Universiade Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 2015 Summer Universiade Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 2015 Summer Universiade Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 2015 Summer Universiade Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2015 Summer Universiade Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 2015 Summer Universiade Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 2015 Summer Universiade Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 2015 Summer Universiade Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics Men's artistic qualification
Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics Men's trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics Qualification
Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics Women's artistic qualification
Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics Women's rhythmic group all-around
Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics Women's rhythmic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics Women's trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games
Gymnastics at the 2017 Summer Universiade Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2017 Summer Universiade Men's artistic qualification
Gymnastics at the 2017 Summer Universiade Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 2017 Summer Universiade Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 2017 Summer Universiade Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 2017 Summer Universiade Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 2017 Summer Universiade Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 2017 Summer Universiade Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 2017 Summer Universiade Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2017 Summer Universiade Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 2017 Summer Universiade Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 2017 Summer Universiade Women's rhythmic group 3 balls + 2 ropes
Gymnastics at the 2017 Summer Universiade Women's rhythmic group 5 hoops
Gymnastics at the 2017 Summer Universiade Women's rhythmic group all-around
Gymnastics at the 2017 Summer Universiade Women's rhythmic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2017 Summer Universiade Women's rhythmic individual ball
Gymnastics at the 2017 Summer Universiade Women's rhythmic individual clubs
Gymnastics at the 2017 Summer Universiade Women's rhythmic individual hoop
Gymnastics at the 2017 Summer Universiade Women's rhythmic individual ribbon
Gymnastics at the 2017 Summer Universiade Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 2017 Summer Universiade Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 2018 Asian Games Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2018 Asian Games Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 2018 Asian Games Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 2018 Asian Games Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 2018 Asian Games Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 2018 Asian Games Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 2018 Asian Games Men's trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2018 Asian Games Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 2018 Asian Games Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2018 Asian Games Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 2018 Asian Games Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 2018 Asian Games Women's rhythmic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2018 Asian Games Women's trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2018 Asian Games Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 2018 Asian Games Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Women's rhythmic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Women's rhythmic individual ball
Gymnastics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Women's rhythmic individual clubs
Gymnastics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Women's rhythmic individual hoop
Gymnastics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Women's rhythmic individual ribbon
Gymnastics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 2018 Mediterranean Games Women's rhythmic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Boys' artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Boys' artistic qualification
Gymnastics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Boys' floor exercise
Gymnastics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Boys' horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Boys' parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Boys' pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Boys' rings
Gymnastics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Boys' trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Boys' vault
Gymnastics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Girls' artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Girls' artistic qualification
Gymnastics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Girls' balance beam
Gymnastics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Girls' floor exercise
Gymnastics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Girls' rhythmic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Girls' trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Girls' uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Girls' vault
Gymnastics at the 2019 European Games Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2019 European Games Men's artistic qualification
Gymnastics at the 2019 European Games Men's floor exercise
Gymnastics at the 2019 European Games Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 2019 European Games Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 2019 European Games Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 2019 European Games Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 2019 European Games Men's synchronized trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2019 European Games Men's trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2019 European Games Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 2019 European Games Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2019 European Games Women's artistic qualification
Gymnastics at the 2019 European Games Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 2019 European Games Women's floor exercise
Gymnastics at the 2019 European Games Women's rhythmic group 3 hoops and 4 clubs
Gymnastics at the 2019 European Games Women's rhythmic group 5 balls
Gymnastics at the 2019 European Games Women's rhythmic group all-around
Gymnastics at the 2019 European Games Women's rhythmic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2019 European Games Women's rhythmic individual ball
Gymnastics at the 2019 European Games Women's rhythmic individual clubs
Gymnastics at the 2019 European Games Women's rhythmic individual hoop
Gymnastics at the 2019 European Games Women's rhythmic individual ribbon
Gymnastics at the 2019 European Games Women's synchronized trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2019 European Games Women's trampoline
Gymnastics at the 2019 European Games Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 2019 European Games Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 2019 Pan American Games
Gymnastics at the 2019 Pan American Games Qualification
Gymnastics at the 2019 Pan American Games Women's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2019 Pan American Games Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 2019 Pan American Games Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 2019 Pan American Games Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 2019 Pan American Games Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games
Gymnastics at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games Ball
Gymnastics at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games Clubs
Gymnastics at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games Hoop
Gymnastics at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games Men's artistic all-around
Gymnastics at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games Men's floor
Gymnastics at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games Men's horizontal bars
Gymnastics at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games Rhythmic group all-around
Gymnastics at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games Ribbon
Gymnastics at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games Women's artistic all-around
Gymnastics at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games Women's floor
Gymnastics at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games Women's vault
Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics Men's horizontal bar
Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics Men's parallel bars
Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics Men's pommel horse
Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics Men's rings
Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics Men's vault
Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics Qualification
Gymnastics at the Alternate Olympics
Gymnastics at the European Games Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the European Games Women's floor exercise
Gymnastics at the European Games Women's individual all-around
Gymnastics at the European Games Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the European Games Women's vault
Gymnastics at the Friendship Games
Gymnastics at the Pan American Games
Gymnastics at the Pan American Games Women's balance beam
Gymnastics at the Pan American Games Women's floor
Gymnastics at the Pan American Games Women's individual all-around
Gymnastics at the Pan American Games Women's uneven bars
Gymnastics at the Pan American Games Women's vault
Gymnastics at the Summer Olympics
Gymnastics at the Summer Universiade
Gymnastics at the World Games
Gymnastics at the Youth Olympic Games
Gymnastics Australia
Gymnastics Club Ergotelis
Gymnastics Federation of Nigeria
Handspring (gymnastics)
Hydrogymnastics
International Gymnastics Federation
Ipswich Gymnastics Centre
Israel Gymnastics Federation
Kazan Gymnastics Center
Kip (artistic gymnastics)
List of Asian Games medalists in gymnastics
List of Commonwealth Games medallists in gymnastics
List of gymnastics flips
List of Olympic medalists in gymnastics (men)
List of Olympic medalists in gymnastics (women)
List of Olympic medal leaders in women's gymnastics
List of top female medalists at major artistic gymnastics events
LSU Tigers women's gymnastics
Magnificent Seven (gymnastics)
Major achievements in gymnastics by nation
Maloney (gymnastics)
Mat (gymnastics)
Michigan Wolverines men's gymnastics
Michigan Wolverines women's gymnastics
Minnesota Golden Gophers gymnastics
Nebraska Cornhuskers women's gymnastics
Oklahoma Sooners women's gymnastics
Olympic Gymnastics Arena
Olympic order in artistic gymnastics
Parkettes National Gymnastics Training Center
Rhythmic gymnastics
Rhythmic gymnastics at the 2001 World Games Ball
Rhythmic gymnastics at the 2001 World Games Clubs
Rhythmic gymnastics at the 2001 World Games Hoop
Rhythmic gymnastics at the 2001 World Games Rope
Rhythmic gymnastics at the 2009 Mediterranean Games
Rhythmic gymnastics at the 2013 Mediterranean Games Women's individual all-around
Rhythmic gymnastics at the 2018 Mediterranean Games
Rhythmic Gymnastics Grand Prix
Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup
Ribbon (rhythmic gymnastics)
Rings (gymnastics)
Roll (gymnastics)
Russian Gymnastics Federation
Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation
South African Gymnastics Federation
Split (gymnastics)
Springboard (gymnastics)
Swiss Gymnastics Federation
Texas Dreams Gymnastics
The Gymnastics Samurai
The Tour of Gymnastics Superstars
Tom Barnes (gymnastics)
Trampoline gymnastics at the 2001 World Games Men's double-mini trampoline
Trampoline gymnastics at the 2001 World Games Men's synchronized trampoline
Trampoline gymnastics at the 2001 World Games Men's tumbling
Trampoline gymnastics at the 2001 World Games Women's double-mini trampoline
Trampoline gymnastics at the 2001 World Games Women's synchronized trampoline
Trampoline gymnastics at the 2001 World Games Women's tumbling
Trampoline gymnastics at the 2009 World Games Men's double-mini trampoline
Trampoline gymnastics at the 2009 World Games Men's synchronized trampoline
Trampoline gymnastics at the 2009 World Games Men's tumbling
Trampoline gymnastics at the 2009 World Games Women's double-mini trampoline
Trampoline gymnastics at the 2009 World Games Women's synchronized trampoline
Trampoline gymnastics at the 2017 World Games
Tumbling (gymnastics)
Turn (dance and gymnastics)
UCLA Bruins women's gymnastics
USA Gymnastics
USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal
Vault (gymnastics)
Wheel gymnastics
World Olympic Gymnastics Academy
Yunak Gymnastic Society