“Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.”
―
Bruce Lee
“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.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own”
―
Bruce Lee
“Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Relationship is understanding. It is a process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself -- to be is to be related.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Obey the principles without being bound by them.”
―
Bruce Lee
“If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. ”
―
Bruce Lee
“Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.”
―
Bruce Lee
“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”
―
Bruce Lee
“The enemy of development is this pain phobia - the unwillingness to do a tiny bit of suffering.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.”
―
Bruce Lee
“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Linda and I aren't one and one. We are two halves that make a whole -- two halves fitted together are more efficient than either half would ever be alone!”
―
Bruce Lee
“Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot”
―
Bruce Lee
