“To free one’s self from preconceived notions, prejudices, and conditioned responses is essential to understanding truth and reality.”
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Bruce Lee
“All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.”
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Bruce Lee
“Obey the principles without being bound by them.”
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Bruce Lee
“physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life.”
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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
“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”
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Bruce Lee
“When the ultimate perfection is attained, the body and limbs perform by themselves what is assigned to them to do with no interference from the mind.
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Bruce Lee
“I fear not the man that can throw a thousand different kicks once, but the man who can throw one kick a thousand times.”
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Bruce Lee
“What you must not do now is to worry and think of the Nationals that is now of the past. What you HABITUALLY THINK largely determines what you will become. Remember, success is a journey, not a destination. I have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.”
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Bruce Lee
“Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else; it'll spread over into the rest of your life. It'll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being... There are NO limits. There are plateus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”
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Bruce Lee
“Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the patter and takes the pattern to be the real thing.”
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Bruce Lee
“In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. 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.”
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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
“The doubters said,
"Man can not fly,"
The doers said,
"Maybe, but we'll try,"
And finally soared
In the morning glow
While non-believers
Watched from below.”
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Bruce Lee
“Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.”
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Bruce Lee
