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Here I am as a human being...how can I express myself, totally and completely?

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Bruce Lee
Age: 32 †
Born: 1940
Born: November 27
Died: 1973
Died: July 20
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Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.
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To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing it is a path leading to success and truth.
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An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.
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A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.
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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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Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being.
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You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup.
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Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.
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Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose - to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!
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Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.
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One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
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In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.
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Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book.
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Training is one of the most neglected phases of athletics. Too much time is given to the development of skill and too little to the development of the individual for participation.
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Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concept. Instead, learn to ACTUALIZE YOURSELF, your potential.
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'What is' is more important than 'what should be.' Too many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be'.
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Every morning like a scholar at his first class I prepare a blank mind for the day to write upon.
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It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
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To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
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Everybody has to think for himself. A right way for a big man may not be a right way for a small man. A right way for someone who is slow may not be a right way for someone who is quick. Each person must understand his weaknesses and his strengths.
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