“If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.”
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Bruce Lee
“Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.”
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Bruce Lee
“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”
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Bruce Lee
“Having totality means being capable of following "what is," because "what is" is constantly moving and constantly changing. If one is anchored to a particular view, one will not be able to follow the swift movement of "what is.”
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Bruce Lee
“Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.”
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Bruce Lee
“The enemy of development is this pain phobia - the unwillingness to do a tiny bit of suffering.”
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Bruce Lee
“...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 plateaus, 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
“Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.”
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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
“Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.”
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Bruce Lee
“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.”
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Bruce Lee
“The disease of philosophy. - Philosophy is itself the disease for which it pretends to be the cure: the wise man does not pursue wisdom but lives his life, and therein precisely does his wisdom lie.”
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Bruce Lee
“If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.”
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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
