title: unbreakable: The secret to developing an indomitable spirit
author:  Sifu Karl Romain 
description: Sifu Karl Romain has led a life of adventure filled with challenges and hard-earned successes. From immigrating to the US as a child to becoming a world champion martial artist, he has had the opportunity to practice overcoming obstacles and has become Unbreakable. The deep personal work he underwent during the recovery from a serious accident resulted in his interest expanding from fighting arts to healing arts and he became first a student and later a teacher of Tai Chi and Chi Gong. Karl has since taught these arts on Oprah, Dr. Oz. and the Discovery Channel, in addition to making appearances on major network news shows. Today, Karl's purpose is to help other people become Unbreakable, and live the lives of their dreams. He is a certified master trainer and coach, who has been extremely successful at guiding clients through step-by-step plans and actions to help them define and achieve their goals. His clients come from all walks of life, including business executives, entrepreneurs, pro-athletes, coaches, and couples seeking growth in their relationships.
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  ## The Rise of Endymion
  
  
    
  
  
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  _( Hyperion Cantos - 4 )_
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Дэн Симмонс
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## The Rise of Endymion
  
  
  ## Dan Simmons
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves.
  
  
  
  
  
  —Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and
  the Machine
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now
  moulds the figure of a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the
  material for a tree, next for a man, next for something else; and each of
  these things subsists for a very short time. But it is no hardship for the
  vessel to be broken up, just as there was none in its being fastened together.
  
  
  
  
  
  —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can,
  
  
  Existent behind all laws, that made them and, lo, they are!
  
  
  And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man,
  
  
  That out of three sounds he fra