“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
“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
Action is a highroad to self-esteem.”
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Bruce Lee
“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
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Bruce Lee
“The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.”
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Bruce Lee
“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
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Bruce Lee
“Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.”
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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
“The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition”
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Bruce Lee
“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
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Bruce Lee
“All I can tell you is that at the end, there's nothing left but love.”
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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.”
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Bruce Lee
“Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.”
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Bruce Lee
“Self-actualization is the important thing. And my personal message to people is that I hope they will go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization. I hope that they will search within themselves for honest self-expression. — Bruce Lee”
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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. ”
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Bruce Lee
