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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

Bruce Lee

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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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You Must Be Shapeless, Formless, Like Water. When You Pour Water In A Cup, It Becomes The Cup.

Self-conquest Is The Greatest Of Victories. Mighty Is He Who Conquers Himself.

Before I Studied The Art, A Punch To Me Was Just Like A Punch, A Kick Just Like A Kick. After I Learned The Art, A Punch Was No Longer A Punch, A Kick No Longer A Kick. Now That I've Understood The Art, A Punch Is Just Like A Punch, A Kick Just Like A Kick. The Height Of Cultivation Is Really Nothing Special. It Is Merely Simplicity; The Ability To Express The Utmost With The Minimum.

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

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.

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.

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

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

What Is True Stillness? Stillness In Movement.

Use Karate, Judo, Aikido, Or Any Style To Build Your Counter-offensive. It Will Be Interesting!

Boards Don't Hit Back.

To Me, Racial Barriers Do Not Exist In Reality. If I Say That 'everyone Under The Sun Is A Member Of A Universal Family,' You May Think That I Am Bluffing And Being Idealistic. But If Anyone Still Believes In Racial Differences, I Think He Is Too Backward And Narrow In His Perspective. Perhaps He Still Does Not Understand Man's Equality And Love.

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Long-term Consistency Trumps Short-term Intensity.

False Teachers Of The Way Of Life Use Flowery Words.

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

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

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

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.

Notice That The Stiffest Tree Is Most Easily Cracked, While The Bamboo Or Willow Survives By Bending With The Wind.

A Person Cannot Forget Someone Who Is Good To Them.

Forgetting Someone

The Athlete Who Is Building Muscles Though Weight Training Should Be Very Sure To Work Adequately On Speed And Flexibility At The Same Time. In Combat, Without The Prior Attributes, A Strong Man Will Be Like The Bull With Its Colossal Strength Futilely Pursuing The Matador Or Like A Low-geared Truck Chasing A Rabbit.

One Rule Is To Not Use Complicated Techniques Unless They Are Necessary To Achieve Your Goal. First, Use Simple Movements, And If They Don't Work, Then Introduce The More Complex Ones.

Without Frustration You Will Not Discover That You Might Be Able To Do Something On Your Own. We Grow Through Conflict.

The Point Is The Doing Of Them Rather Than The Accomplishments . There Is No Actor But The Action; There Is No Experiencer But The Experience.

One Should Be In Harmony With, Not In Opposition To, The Strength And Force Of The Opposition. This Means That One Should Do Nothing That Is Not Natural Or Spontaneous; The Important Thing Is Not To Strain In Any Way.

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

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.

The Knowledge And Skills You Have Achieved Are Meant To Be Forgotten So You Can Float Comfortably In Emptiness, Without Obstruction.

The Founder Of Any Branch Must Be More Ingenious Than The Common Man. However, If His Achievement Is Not Carried On By Disciples Of The Same Ingenuity, Then Things Will Only Become Formalized And Get Stuck In A Cul-de-sac; Whereby Breakthrough And Progress Will Be Almost Impossible.

The Truth Is Outside Of All Fixed Patterns.

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

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.

The Essence Of Fighting Is The Art Of Moving At The Right Time.

To Develop The Creative Attitude, Analyze And Focus On The Wanted Solution; Seek Out And Fill Your Mind With The Facts; Write Down Ideas, Both Sensible And Seemingly Wild; Let The Facts And Ideas Simmer In Your Mind; Evaluate, Recheck, Settle On The Creative Ideas.

If Mere Mechanical Efficiency Can Make Everyone A Martial Artist, Then All Is Well. Unfortunately, Combat, Like Freedom, Is Something That Can Not Be Preconceived.

Jeet Kune Do Favors Formlessness So That It Can Assume All Forms And Since Jeet Kune Do Has No Style, It Can Fit In With All Styles. As A Result, Jeet Kune Do Utilizes All Ways And Is Bound By None And, Likewise, Uses Any Techniques Which Serve Its End.

A Kung Fu Man Who Was Really Good Was Not Proud At All. Pride Emphasizes The Superiority Of One's Status. There Has To Be Fear And Insecurity In Pride, Because When You Aim At Being Highly Esteemed And Achieve Such Status, You Automatically Start To Worry About Losing Status.

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.

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Understanding Requires Not Just A Moment Of Perception, But A Continuous Awareness, A Continuous State Of Inquiry Without Conclusion

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

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

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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The Highest Art Is No Art. The Best Form Is No Form.

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Never Trouble Trouble Till Trouble Troubles You. I'll Not Willingly Offend, Nor Be Easily Offended.

Easily Offended

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

Pessimism Blunts The Tools You Need To Succeed.

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

If You Follow The Classical Pattern, You Are Understanding The Routine, The Tradition, The Shadow -- You Are Not Understanding Yourself.

Obey The Principles Without Being Bound By Them.

A Good Martial Artist Does Not Become Tend But Ready, Not Thinking But Jet Not Dreaming. Ready For Whatever May Come.

Self-knowledge Involves Relationship. To Know Oneself Is To Study One Self In Action With Another Person. Relationship Is A Process Of Self Evaluation And Self Revelation. Relationship Is The Mirror In Which You Discover Yourself - To Be Is To Be Related.

How Can There Be Methods And Systems To Arrive At Something That Is Living? To That Which Is Static, Fixed, Dead, There Can Be A Way, A Definite Path, But Not To That Which Is Living. Do Not Reduce Reality To A Static Thing And Then Invent Methods To Reach It. ...truth Has No Path. Truth Is Living And, Therefore, Changing. It Has No Resting Place, No Form, No Organized Institution, No Philosophy. When You See That, You Will Understand That This Living Thing Is Also What You Are. You Cannot Express And Be Alive Through Static, Put-together Form, Through Stylized Movement.

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.

Accepting Yourself

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

True Thusness Is The Substance Of Thought, And Thought Is The Function Of True Thusness. There Is No Thought Except That Of True Thusness. Thusness Does Not Move, But Its Motion And Function Are Inexhaustible.

The Possession Of Anything Begins In The Mind.

In Buddhism, There Is No Place For Using Effort. Just Be Ordinary And Nothing Special. Eat Your Food, Move Your Bowels, Pass Water And When You're Tired Go And Lie Down. The Ignorant Will Laugh At Me, But The Wise Will Understand.

Open Yourself And Flow, My Friend. Flow In The Total Openness Of The Living Moment.

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.

Preparation For Tomorrow Is Hard Work Today.

It Is Better To Live As A Broken Piece Of Jade, Than To Live As A Useless Clay.

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

From Form To Formless And From Finite To Infinite

All Types Of Knowledge, Ultimately Mean Self Knowledge.

To See Is To Be Decieved. To Hear Is To Be Lied To. To Feel Is To Believe.

Though Methods Play An Important Role In The Early Stage, The Techniques Should Not Be Too Mechanical, Complex Or Restrictive. If We Cling Blindly To Them, We Shall Eventually Become Bound By Their Limitations. Remember, You Are Expressing The Techniques And Not Doing The Techniques. If Somebody Attacks You, Your Response Is Not Technique No.1, Stance No. 2, Section 4, Paragraph 5. Instead You Simply Move In Like Sound And Echo, Without Any Deliberation. It Is As Though When I Call You, You Answer Me, Or When I Throw You Something, You Catch It. It's As Simple As That - No Fuss, No Mess.

In The Middle Of Chaos Lies Opportunity.

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

Good Technique Includes Quick Changes, Great Variety And Speed. It May Be A System Of Reversals Much Like A Concept Of God And The Devil. In The Speed Of Events, Which One Is Really In Charge? Do They Change Places With Lightning Speed? The Chinese Believe So. To Put The Heart Of The Martial Arts In Your Own Heart And Have It Be A Part Of You Means Total Comprehension.

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

Jeet Kune Do Does Not Beat Around The Bush. It Does Not Take Winding Detours. It Follows A Straight Line To The Objective. Simplicity Is The Shortest Distance Between Two Points.

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.

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

A Kung Fu Man Lives Without Being Dependant On The Opinions Of Others, And A Master, Unlike The Beginner, Holds Himself In Reserve. He Is Quiet And Unassuming, With No Desire To Show Off.

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

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

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

To Understand Your Fear Is The Beginning Of Really Seeing.

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The Doubters Said, "man Can Not Fly," The Doers Said, "maybe, But We'll Try," And Finally Soared In The Morning Glow While Non-believers Watched From Below.

The Poorer We Are Inwardly, The More We Try To Enrich Ourselves Outwardly.

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Cease Negative Mental Chattering. If You Think A Thing Is Impossible, You'll Make It Impossible. Pessimism Blunts The Tools You Need To Succeed.

Do Not Have An Attitude, Open Yourself And Focus Yourself And Express Yourself. Reject External Form That Fails To Express Internal Reality.

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.

Your State Of Mind Is Everything.

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Circumstances Hell! I Make Circumstances!

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.

Life Is Wide, Limitless. There Is No Border, No Frontier.

When You Say That Something Is Impossible, You Have Made It Impossible.

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.

Ultimately The Greatest Help Is Self-help.

Either Push Your Limits Or Die.

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.

When One Has Reached Maturity In This Art, One Will Have The Formless Form. It Is Like The Dissolving Or Thawing [of] Ice Into Water That Can Shape Itself To Any Structure. When One Has No Form, One Can Be All Forms; When One Has No Style, One Can Fit In With Any Style.

I Refer To My Hands, Feet And Body As The Tools Of The Trade. The Hands And Feet Must Be Sharpened And Improved Daily To Be Efficient.

To Me, The Extraordinary Aspect Of Martial Arts Lies In Its Simplicity. The Easy Way Is Also The Right Way, And Martial Arts Is Nothing At All Special; The Closer To The True Way Of Martial Arts, The Less Wastage Of Expression There Is.

No Matter What, You Must Let Your Inner Light Guide You Out Of The Darkness.

Zen Is Not “attained” By Mirror-wiping Mediation, But By “self-forgetfulness In The Existential 'present' Of Life Here And Now.” We Do Not “come”, We “are.” Don't Strive To Become, But Be.

We Do Not Become. We Simply Are.

Simplicity Is The Key To Brilliance.

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To Tolerate Is To Insult.

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.

Absorb What Is Useful, Discard What Is Not, Add What Is Uniquely Your Own.

Learning Is Definitely Not Mere Imitation, Nor Is It The Ability To Accumulate And Regurgitate Fixed Knowledge. Learning Is A Constant Process Of Discovery - A Process Without End.

Knowledge Learning

Real Living Is Living For Others.

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

Life Itself Is Your Teacher, And You Are In A State Of Constant Learning.

You Must Have Complete Determination. The Worst Opponent You Can Come Across Is One Whose Aim Has Become An Obsession.

To Be Honest To Oneself, And That Is Very Hard To Do.

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.

The Primary Reality Is Not What I Think, But That I Live, For Those Also Live Who Do Not Think.

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

A Man Must Constantly Exceed His Level

With Every Adversity Comes A Blessing Because A Shock Acts As A Reminder To Oneself That We Must Not Get Stale In Routine.

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.

True Observation Begins When Devoid Of Set Patterns; Freedom Of Expression Occurs When One Is Beyond System.

Freedom Of Expression

Emotion Can Be The Enemy, If You Give Into Your Emotion, You Lose Yourself. You Must Be At One With Your Emotion, Because The Body Always Follows The Mind.

The Meaning Of Life Is That It Is To Be Lived.

Meaning Of Life

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.

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

The Height Of Cultivation Always Runs To Simplicity.

We Have Great Work Ahead Of Us, And It Needs Devotion And Much, Much Energy. To Grow, To Discover, We Need Involvement, Which Is Something I Experience Every Day - Sometimes Good, Sometimes Frustrating. No Matter What, You Must Let Your Inner Light Guide You Out Of The Darkness.

People Try To Hold Onto The Sameness. This Holding Onto Prevents Growth.

A Good Teacher Protects His Pupils From His Own Influence.

I'm Not In This World To Live Up To Your Expectations And You're Not In This World To Live Up To Mine.

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

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.

Each Moment That Passes Changes You...you Can't Even Own Yourself. How Can You Ever Hope To Own Anyone Or Anything Else.

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.

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!

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.

Flow In The Living Moment. — We Are Always In A Process Of Becoming And Nothing Is Fixed. Have No Rigid System In You, And You’ll Be Flexible To Change With The Ever Changing. Open Yourself And Flow, My Friend. Flow In The Total Openness Of The Living Moment. If Nothing Within You Stays Rigid, Outward Things Will Disclose Themselves. Moving, Be Like Water. Still, Be Like A Mirror. Respond Like An Echo.

Like The Cobra, You Remain Coiled In A Loose But Compact Position And Your Strike Should Be Felt Before It Is Seen.

If I Should Die Tomorrow, I Will Have No Regrets. I Did What I Wanted To Do. You Can't Expect More From Life.

Ideas Are The Beginning Of All Achievement.

There Is No Love Without Friendship. Passion Alone Does Not Form Relationships Of Value.

True Refinement Seeks Simplicity.

The More Aware You Become, The More You Shed From Day To Day What You Have Learned So That Your Mind Is Always Fresh And Uncontaminated By Previous Conditioning.

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.

To Live Is To Express Oneself Freely

It Is Not What Happens That Is Success Or Failure, But What It Does To The Heart Of Man.

Concepts Vs. Self-actualization. - Instead Of Dedicating Your Life To Actualize A Concept Of What You Should Be Like, Actualize Yourself. The Process Of Maturing Does Not Mean To Become A Captive Of Conceptualization. It Is To Come To The Realization Of What Lies In Our Innermost Selves.

Once I Slow Down Because I Think I Have Reached My Peak, Then My Skills Will Go Nowhere But Down

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