I'm moving and not moving at all. I'm like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and rocking. It is not, "I am doing this," but rather, an inner realization that "this is happening through me," or "it is doing this for me." The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.
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Bruce Lee
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Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.
It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
Memory: Recognizing the value of an alert mind and an alert memory, I will encourage mine to become alert by taking care to impress it clearly with all thoughts I wish to recall and by associating those thoughts with related subjects which I may call to mind frequently.
Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for a difficult on with the strength to endure it.
Living exists when life lives through us _ life is a living now!
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one
I__ not in this world to live up to your expectations and you__e not in this world to live up to mine.
The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.
Real living is living for others.
Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
A conditioned mind is never a free mind.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.
Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.