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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.

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To Realize Freedom The

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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.

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If Your Opponent Is At A Distance, Kick Him In The Groin. If He Gets Close, Poke Him In The Eyes, Bring Up Your Knee, Pop Him With An Elbow, Dig A Corkscrew Punch To His Stomach.

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Running Water Never Grows Stale.

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Water Can Flow, Or It Can Crash. Be Water, My Friend.

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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.

If There Is A God

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

If Nothing Within You Stays Rigid, Outward Things Will Disclose Themselves. Moving, Be Like Water. Still, Be Like A Mirror. Respond Like An Echo.

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

You And Your Opponent Are One. There Is A Coexisting Relationship Between You. You Coexist With Your Opponent And Become His Complement, Absorbing His Attack And Using His Force To Overcome Him.

A Man Strikes You, Make Him Bleed. He Makes You Bleed, You Break His Bones. He Breaks Your Bones, Kill Him. Being Hit Is Inevitable, Strike Back Twice As Hard.

What Is True Stillness? Stillness In Movement.

Voidness Is That Which Stands Right In The Middle Between This And That. The Void Is All-inclusive, Having No Opposite--there Is Nothing Which It Excludes Or Opposes. It Is Living Void, Because All Forms Come Out Of It And Whoever Realizes The Void Is Filled With Life And Power And The Love Of All Beings.

We Should Devote Ourselves To Being Self-sufficient And Must Not Depend Upon The External Ratings By Others For Our Happiness.

Knowledge Will Give You Power, But Character Respect.

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.

Always Be Yourself, Express Yourself, Have Faith In Yourself, Do Not Go Out And Look For A Successful Personality And Duplicate It.

All Knowledge Leads To Self-knowledge.

When You Point To The Moon, What Do You See In Front Of Your Finger; Your Task Is To Feel, Not To Think, When You Can Understand That The Lesson Will Be Learned.

To Live Is A Constant Process Of Relating, So Come On Out Of That Shell Of Isolation And Conclusion, And Relate Directly To What Is Being Said. Bear In Mind I Seek Neither Your Approval Nor To Influence You. So Do Not Make Up Your Mind As To "this Is This" Or "that Is That." I Will Be More Than Satisfied If You Begin To Learn To Investigate Everything Yourself From Now On.

I Believe In Teaching Just A Few Students, As Teaching Requires A Constant Alert Observation On Each Individual In Order To Establish A Direct Relationship. A Good Teacher Cannot Be Fixed In A Routine, And Many Are Just That. During Teaching, Each Moment Requires A Sensitive Mind That Is Constantly Changing And Constantly Adapting.

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Defeat Is Not Defeat Unless Accepted As A Reality-in Your Own Mind.

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