“If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. ”
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Bruce Lee
“Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.”
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Bruce Lee
“Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.”
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Bruce Lee
“Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.”
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Bruce Lee
“I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet 'paradise'. More important, I no longer fear 'hell'.
The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment.
Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.”
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Bruce Lee
“Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.”
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Bruce Lee
“Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.”
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Bruce Lee
“The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.”
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Bruce Lee
“There was nothing haphazard about Bruce’s training regime, neither was he particularly “lucky” in having started out with natural physical gifts. The greatest talents that Bruce brought to realizing his dreams were intelligence and curiosity (hand in hand, a powerful combination), dedication and perseverance (stick-to-itiveness even in the face of intervening obstacles), and focus (enjoying the journey as much as the destination).”
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Bruce Lee
“Obey the principles without being bound by them.”
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Bruce Lee
“Learn the principles, abide by the principles, and then dissolve the principles.”
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Bruce Lee
“Ricorda, amico mio, che non è tanto importante quello che ti succede, ma come reagisci agli eventi.”
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Bruce Lee
“The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.”
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Bruce Lee
“There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you.”
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Bruce Lee
“There is “what is” only when there is no comparing and to live with “what is” is to be peaceful.”
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Bruce Lee
