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I'm Moving And Not Moving At All. I'm Like The Moon Underneath The Waves That Ever Go On Rolling And Rocking. It Is Not, "i Am Doing This," But Rather, An Inner Realization That "this Is Happening Through Me," Or "it Is Doing This For Me." The Consciousness Of Self Is The Greatest Hindrance To The Proper Execution Of All Physical Action.

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I'm Moving And Not

Bruce Lee

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I'm Moving And Not Moving At All. I'm Like The Moon Underneath The Waves That Ever Go On Rolling And Rocking. It Is Not, "i Am Doing This," But Rather, An Inner Realization That "this Is Happening Through Me," Or "it Is Doing This For Me." The Consciousness Of Self Is The Greatest Hindrance To The Proper Execution Of All Physical Action.

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A Wise Man Can Learn More From A Foolish Question Than A Fool Can Learn From A Wise Answer.

A Quick Temper Will Make A Fool Of You Soon Enough.

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.

Give Up Thinking As Though Not Giving It Up. Observe Techniques As Though Not Observing.

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The Ideal Is Unnatural Naturalness, Or Natural Unnaturalness. I Mean It Is A Combination Of Both. I Mean Here Is Natural Instinct And Here Is Control. You Are To Combine The Two In Harmony. Not If You Have One To The Extreme, You'll Be Very Unscientific. If You Have Another To The Extreme, You Become, All Of A Sudden, A Mechanical Man No Longer A Human Being. It Is A Successful Combination Of Both. That Way It Is A Process Of Continuing Growth.

Here I Am As A Human Being...how Can I Express Myself, Totally And Completely?

Do Not Be Tense, Just Be Ready, Not Thinking But Not Dreaming, Not Being Set But Being Flexible.

We Are Told That Talent Creates Opportunity, Yet It Is Desire That Creates Talent.

I Personally Do Not Believe In The Word Style. Why? Because, Unless There Are Human Beings With Three Arms And Four Legs, Unless We Have Another Group Of Beings On Earth That Are Structurally Different From Us, There Can Be No Different Style Of Fighting. Why Is That? Because We Have Two Hands And Two Legs. ... Because Of Styles, People Are Separated. They Are Not United Together Because Styles Become Law.

It's Not The Daily Increase But Daily Decrease. Hack Away At The Unessential.

The More We Value Things, The Less We Value Ourselves

Only The Self-sufficient Stand Alone - Most People Follow The Crowd And Imitate.

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For It Is Easy To Criticize And Break Down The Spirit Of Others, But To Know Yourself Takes A Lifetime.

Endurance Is Lost Rapidly If One Ceases To Work At Its Maximum.

Reality Is Apparent When One Ceases To Compare.

Life Is Never Stagnation. It Is Constant Movement, Un-rhythmic Movement, As We As Constant Change. Things Live By Moving And Gain Strength As They Go.

There Is No Such Thing As Maturity. There Is Instead An Ever-evolving Process Of Maturing. Because When There Is A Maturity, There Is A Conclusion And A Cessation. That’s The End. That’s When The Coffin Is Closed. You Might Be Deteriorating Physically In The Long Process Of Aging, But Your Personal Process Of Daily Discovery Is Ongoing. You Continue To Learn More And More About Yourself Every Day.

When You Freely Express, You Are The Total Style.

The Great Mistake Is To Anticipate The Outcome Of The Engagement; You Ought Not To Be Thinking Of Whether It Ends In Victory Or Defeat. Let Nature Take Its Course, And Your Tools Will Strike At The Right Moment.

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I Wish Neither To Possess Nor To Be Possessed. I No Longer Covet 'paradise'. More Important, I No Longer Fear 'hell'. The Medicine For My Suffering I Had Within Me From The Very Beginning But I Did Not Take It. My Ailment Came From Within Myself, But I Did Not Observe It, Until This Moment. Now I See That I Will Never Find The Light Unless, Like The Candle, I Am My Own Fuel, Consuming Myself.

You Will Never Learn Anything New Unless You Are Ready To Accept Yourself With Your Limitations. You Must Accept The Fact That You Are Capable In Some Directions And Limited In Others, And You Must Develop Your Capabilities.

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I Did What I Came Here To Do. What I've Done I've Done With Sincerity And To The Best Of My Ability. You Can't Expect Much More From Life.

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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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When You're Talking About Fighting, As It Is, With No Rules, Well Then, Baby You'd Better Train Every Part Of Your Body!

The Key To Immortality Is First Living A Life Worth Remembering.

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The Less Effort, The Faster And More Powerful You Will Be.

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The Usefulness Of The Cup Is Its Emptiness.

All Types Of Knowledge, Ultimately Mean Self Knowledge.

If You Don't Want To Slip Up Tomorrow, Speak The Truth Today.

People Fear What They Do Not Understand.

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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.

The Aim Of Art Is To Project An Inner Vision Into The World.

To Realize Freedom The Mind Has To Learn To Look At Life, Which Is A Vast Movement, Without The Bondage Of Time , For Freedom Lies Beyond The Field Of Consciousness Care For Watching, But Don't Stop And Interpret "i Am Free," Then You're Living In A Memory Of Something That Has Gone Before.

Effort Within The Mind Further Limits The Mind, Because Effort Implies Struggle Towards A Goal And When You Have A Goal, A Purpose, An End In View, You Have Placed A Limit On The Mind.

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Knowledge , Surely, Is Always Of Time , Whereas Knowing Is Not Of Time. Knowledge Is From A Source, From Accumulation, From Conclusion, While Knowing Is A Movement.

Efficiency Is Anything That Scores.

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It's The Law Of Averages: Put In More, Come Out With More.

Law Of Averages

Prosperity Is Apt To Prevent Us From Examining Our Conduct; But Adversity Leads Us To Think Properly Of Our State, And So Is Beneficial To Us.

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Remember, You Are Expressing The Techniques And Not Doing The Techniques.

All Types Of Knowledge Ultimately Lead To Self-knowledge. So, Therefore, These People Are Asking Me To Teach Them, Not So Much How To Defend Themselves Or How To Do Somebody In. Rather, They Want To Learn To Express Themselves Through Some Movement, Be It Anger, Be It Determination Or Whatever. So, In Other Words, They're Paying Me To Show Them, In Combative Form, The Art Of Expressing The Human Body.

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Things Live By Moving And Gain Strength As They Go.

Remember No Man Is Really Defeated Unless He Is Discouraged.

Persistence, Persistence, And Persistence. The Power Can Be Created And Maintained Through Daily Practice - Continuous Effort.

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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.

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.

Awareness Is Without Choice, Without Demand, Without Anxiety; In That State Of Mind, There Is Perception.

'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'.

Even Today, I Dare Not Say That I Have Reached A State Of Achievement. I'm Still Learning, For Learning Is Boundless.

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Love Is Like A Friendship Caught On Fire. In The Beginning A Flame, Very Pretty, Often Hot And Fierce, But Still Only Light And Flickering. As Love Grows Older, Our Hearts Mature And Our Love Becomes As Coals, Deep-burning And Unquenchable.

Humility Forms The Basis Of Honor, Just As The Low Ground Forms The Foundation Of A High Elevation.

Put Every Great Teacher In A Room, And They'd Agree About Everything, But Put Their Disciples In There And They'd Argue About Everything.

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All Martial Art Is Simply An Honest Expression Of One's Body — With A Lot Of Deception In Between.

We Have Great Work Ahead Of Us, And It Needs Devotion And Much, Much Energy. To Grow, To Discover, We Need Involvement.

Obey The Principles Without Being Bound By Them.

But To Those Who Kept Saying "it Can't Be Done," Never Are The Victories Or The Honors Won. But, Rather, By The Believing, Doing Kind, While The Doubters Watched From Far Behind.

There Is A Powerful Craving In Most Of Us To See Ourselves As Instruments In The Hands Of Others And Thus Free Ourselves From The Responsibility For Acts Which Are Prompted By Our Own Questionable Inclinations And Impulses. Both The Strong And The Weak Grasp At This Alibi. The Latter Hide Their Malevolence Under The Virtue Of Obedience: They Acted Dishonorably Because They Had To Obey Orders. The Strong, Too, Claim Absolution By Proclaiming Themselves The Chosen Instrument Of A Higher Power -- God, History, Fate, Nation, Or Humanity.

Ever Since I Was A Child I Have Had This Instinctive Urge For Expansion And Growth. To Me, The Function And Duty Of A Quality Human Being Is The Sincere And Honest Development Of One's Potential.

Self-will Seems To Be The Only Virtue That Takes No Account Of Man-made Laws.

Everything You Do, If Not In A Relaxed State Will Be Done At A Lesser Level Than You Are Proficient. Thus The Tensed Expert Marksman Will Aim At A Level Less Than His/her Student.

If You Want To Learn To Swim You Have To Throw Yourself In The Water.

Every Man Today Is The Result Of His Thoughts Yesterday.

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Express Yourself

All Fixed Set Patterns Are Incapable Of Adaptability Or Pliability. The Truth Is Outside Of All Fixed Patterns.

Nothingness Cannot Be Defined; The Softest Thing Cannot Be Snapped.

The Deluded Mind Is The Mind Affectively Burdened By Intellect. Thus, It Cannot Move Without Stopping And Reflecting On Itself. This Obstructs Its Native Fluidity.

I Treasure The Memory Of The Past Misfortunes. It Has Added More To My Bank Of Fortitude.

The Principle Of Martial Arts Is Not A Thing That Can Be Learned, Like A Science, By Fact-finding And Instruction In Facts. It Has To Grow Spontaneously, Like A Flower, In A Mind Free From Emotions And Desires.

The Best Fighter Is Not A Boxer, Karate Or Judo Man. The Best Fighter Is Someone Who Can Adapt On Any Style. He Kicks Too Good For A Boxer, Throws Too Good For A Karate Man, And Punches Too Good For A Judo Man.

To Reach Me, You Must Move To Me. Your Attack Offers Me An Opportunity To Intercept You.

We Have More Faith In What We Imitate Than In What We Create

My Style? You Can Call It The Art Of Fighting Without Fighting.

I Am Learning To Understand Rather Than Immediately Judge Or To Be Judged.

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There Are No Limits. If It Kills You, It Kills You. A Man Must Constantly Exceed His Level.

Be Self Aware, Rather Than A Repetitious Robot

Practice Makes Perfect. After A Long Time Of Practicing, Our Work Will Become Natural, Skillfull, Swift, And Steady.

A Good Teacher Can Never Be Fixed In A Routine... Each Moment Requires A Sensitive Mind That Is Constantly Changing And Constantly Adapting. A Teacher Must Never Impose This Student To Fit His Favourite Pattern; A Good Teacher Functions As A Pointer, Exposing His Student's Vulnerability And Causing Him To Explore Both Internally And Finally Integrating Himself With His Being. Martial Art Should Not Be Passed Out Indiscriminately.

Learn The Principle, Abide By The Principle, And Dissolve The Principle. In Short, Enter A Mold Without Being Caged In It. Obey The Principle Without Being Bound By It. Learn, Master, And Achieve.

I Have The Absolute Confidence Not To Be Number Two, But Then I Have Enough Sense To Realize That There Can Be No Number One.

I Have Always Been A Martial Artist By Choice, An Actor By Profession, But Above All, Am Actualising Myself To Be An Artist Of Life.

Forget About Winning And Losing, Forget About Pride And Pain

The Martial Arts Are Ultimately Self-knowledge. A Punch Or A Kick Is Not To Knock The Hell Out Of The Guy In Front, But To Knock The Hell Out Of Your Ego, Your Fear, Or Your Hang-ups.

There Are Too Many Stars And Too Few Actors.

Action Is A High Road To Self-confidence And Esteem. Where It Is Open, All Energies Flow Toward It. It Comes Readily To Most People, And Its Rewards Are Tangible.

Are You Going To Let The Obstacles In Your Life Be Stumbling Blocks Or Stepping Stones? Choose The Positive. You Are The Master Of Your Attitude.

Using No Way As A Way, Having No Limitation As Limitation.

Knowledge Will Give You Power, But Character Respect.

What You Habitually Think Largely Determines What You Will Ultimately Become.

Do Not Run Away; Let Go. Do Not Seek; For It Will Come When Least Expected.

If You Want To Learn To Swim Jump Into The Water. On Dry Land No Frame Of Mind Is Ever Going To Help You.

Empty Your Mind, Be Formless, Shapeless - Like Water.

Ever Since I Was A Child I Have Had This Instinctive Urge For Expansion And Growth.

If Every Man Would Help His Neighbor, No Man Would Be Without Help.

A Good Martial Artist Does Not Become Tense, But Ready. Not Thinking, Yet Not Dreaming. Ready For Whatever May Come. When The Opponent Expands, I Contract; And When He Contracts, I Expand. And When There Is An Opportunity, "i" Do Not Hit, "it" Hits All By Itself.

Every Morning Like A Scholar At His First Class I Prepare A Blank Mind For The Day To Write Upon.

When We Hold To The Core, The Opposite Sides Are The Same If They Are Seen From The Center Of The Moving Circle. I Do Not Experience; I Am Experience. I Am Not The Subject Of Experience; I Am That Experience. I Am Awareness. Nothing Else Can Be I Or Can Exist.

Use Only That Which Works, And Take It From Any Place You Can Find It.

One Will Never Get Any More Than He Thinks He Can Get. You Have What It Takes. Look Back And See Your Progress - Damn The Torpedo, Full Speed Ahead!

I Don't Know What Is The Meaning Of Death, But I Am Not Afraid To Die - And I Go On, Non-stop, Going Forward With Life. Even Though I, Bruce Lee, May Die Some Day Without Fulfilling All Of My Ambitions, I Will Have No Regrets. I Did What I Wanted To Do And What I've Done, I've Done With Sincerity And To The Best Of My Ability. You Can't Expect Much More From Life.

Defeat Is A State Of Mind; No One Is Ever Defeated Until Defeat Has Been Accepted As A Reality.

Preparation For Tomorrow Is Hard Work Today.

To Take Responsibility For One's Own Actions, Good And Bad, Is Something Else.

Taking Responsibility

True Refinement Seeks Simplicity.

When There Is Freedom From Mechanical Conditioning, There Is Simplicity.

Bring The Mind To A Sharp Focus And Make It Alert So That It Can Immediately Intuit Truth, Which Is Everywhere.

To Become A Champion Requires A Good Mental Attitude Toward Preparation. You Have To Accept The Most Tedious Task With Pleasure.

To Contemplate A Thing Implies Maintaining Oneself Outside It, Resolved To Keep A Distance Between It And Ourselves.

Since Life Is An Ever Evolving Process, One Should Flow In This Process And Discover How To Actualize And Expand Oneself.

The Attitude, 'you Can Win If You Want To Badly Enough,' Means That The Will To Win Is Constant. No Amount Of Punishment, No Amount Of Effort, No Condition Is Too 'tough' To Take In Order To Win. Such An Attitude Can Be Developed Only If Winning Is Closely Tied To The Practitioner's Ideals And Dreams.

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.

All Goals Apart From The Means Are Illusions; Becoming Is A Denial Of Being.

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.

Showing Off Is The Fool's Idea Of Glory.

When Finger Point At Moon, Don't Look At Finger Or You'll Miss The Moon.

A Goal Is Not Always Meant To Be Reached, It Often Serves Simply As Something To Aim At.

Any Technique, However Worthy And Desirable, Becomes A Disease When The Mind Is Obsessed With It.

Mistakes Are Always Forgivable, If One Has The Courage To Admit Them.

The Height Of Cultivation Always Runs To Simplicity.

Do Not Deny The Classical Approach, Simply As A Reaction, Or You Will Have Created Another Pattern And Trapped Yourself There.

It Is Not A Shame To Be Knocked Down By Other People. The Important Thing Is To Ask When You're Being Knocked Down, 'why Am I Being Knocked Down?' If A Person Can Reflect In This Way, Then There Is Hope For This Person.

I Create Opportunities.

What Comes After Victory? Why Do People Value Victory So Much? What Is 'glory'? What Kind Of Victory Is 'glorious'?

If You Want To Be Immortal Live A Life Worth Remembering

If People Say Jeet Kune Do Is Different From This Or From That, Then Let The Name Of Jeet Kune Do Be Wiped Out, For That Is What It Is, Just A Name. Please Don't Fuss Over It.

In Order To Control Myself I Must First Accept Myself By Going With And Not Against My Nature.

The Martial Arts Are Based Upon Understanding, Hard Work And A Total Comprehension Of Skills. Power Training And The Use Of Force Are Easy, But Total Comprehension Of All Of The Skills Of The Martial Arts Is Very Difficult To Achieve.

A Good Fighter Must Sense Rather Than Perceive His Chance To Strike.

Art Reaches Its Greatest Peak When Devoid Of Self-consciousn Ess.

The Three Most Difficult Things In Life Are: 1. To Keep A Secret. 2. To Forget An Injury. 3. To Make Good Use Of Leisure.

Empty Your Cup So That It May Be Filled; Become Devoid To Gain Totality.

The Unfolding Of The Bare Human Soul...that Is What Interests Me.

Let Nature Take Its Course And Your Tools Will Strike At The Right Moment.

Let The Spirit Out - Discard All Thoughts Of Reward, All Hopes Of Praise And Fears Of Blame, All Awareness Of One's Bodily Self. And, Finally Closing The Avenues Of Sense Perception, Let The Spirit Out, As It Will.

Life Is Better Lived Than Conceptualized. — This Writing Can Be Less Demanding Should I Allow Myself To Indulge In The Usual Manipulating Game Of Role Creation. Fortunately For Me, My Self-knowledge Has Transcended That And I’ve Come To Understand That Life Is Best To Be Lived — Not To Be Conceptualized. If You Have To Think, You Still Do Not Understand.

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.

Too Much Horsing Around With Unrealistic Stances And Classic Forms And Rituals Is Just Too Artificial And Mechanical, And Doesn't Really Prepare The Student For Actual Combat. A Guy Could Get Clobbered While Getting Into This Classical Mess. Classical Methods Like These, Which I Consider A Form Of Paralysis, Only Solidify And Constrain What Was Once Fluid. Their Practitioners Are Merely Blindly Rehearsing Routines And Stunts That Will Lead Nowhere.

The Biggest Adversary In Our Life Is Ourselves. We Are What We Are, In A Sense, Because Of The Dominating Thoughts We Allow To Gather In Our Head. All Concepts Of Self-improvement, All Actions And Paths We Take, Relate Solely To Our Abstract Image Of Ourselves. Life Is Limited Only By How We Really See Ourselves And Feel About Our Being. A Great Deal Of Pure Self-knowledge And Inner Understanding Allows Us To Lay An All-important Foundation For The Structure Of Our Life From Which We Can Perceive And Take The Right Avenues.

A Quality Martial Artist Is Always Ready For Any Move, And Trains Oneself Invincible.

To Be Certain, Every Day There Can Be A Revelation Or A New Discovery.

Art Is The Way To The Absolute And To The Essence Of Human Life. The Aim Of Art Is Not The One-sided Promotion Of Spirit, Soul And Senses, But The Opening Of All Human Capacities – Thought, Feeling, Will – To The Life Rhythm Of The World Of Nature. So Will The Voiceless Voice Be Heard And The Self Be Brought Into Harmony With It.

All Knowledge Leads To Self-knowledge.

If One Loves, One Need Not Have An Ideology Of Love.

Stop Wasting Time In Playing A Role Or A Concept. Instead, Learn To Actualize Yourself, Your Potential.

Training For Strength And Flexibility Is A Must. You Must Use It To Support Your Techniques. Techniques Alone Are No Good If You Don't Support Them With Strength And Flexibility.

Voidness Is That Which Stands Right In The Middle Between This And That.

Finally, A Jeet Kune Do Man Who Says Jeet Kune Do Is Exclusively Jeet Kune Do Is Simply Not With It. He Is Still Hung Up On His Self-closing Resistance, In This Case Anchored Down To Reactionary Pattern, And Naturally Is Still Bound By Another Modified Pattern And Can Move Within Its Limits. He Has Not Digested The Simple Fact That Truth Exists Outside All Molds; Pattern And Awareness Is Never Exclusive. Again Let Me Remind You Jeet Kune Do Is Just A Name Used, A Boat To Get One Across, And Once Across It Is To Be Discarded And Not To Be Carried On One's Back.

The Idea Is That Flowing Water Never Goes Stale, So Just Keep On Flowing.

Learning Is A Constant Process Of Discovery - A Process Without End.

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