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Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
Bruce Lee
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Bruce Lee
Age: 32 †
Born: 1940
Born: November 27
Died: 1973
Died: July 20
Actor
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Film Producer
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Tung Wah Dispensary
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Emptiness the starting point. — In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.
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What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds 'body feel' and personal expression surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.
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Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.
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To be honest to oneself, and that is very hard to do.
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Self-Conquest is the greatest of victories. Mighty is he who conquers himself.
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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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To tolerate is to insult.
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Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.
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when one is not expressing himself, he is not free. thus, he begins to struggle and the struggle breeds methodical routine. Soon, he is doing his methodical routine as response rather than responding to what is.
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For something that is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way or a definite path but not for anything that is moving and living.
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Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.
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Its not what happens that counts... It's how you react.
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