Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Bruce Lee
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.”
“Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.”
“All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.”
“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.”
“Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.”
“If you think a thing is impossible,you'll only make it impossible.”
“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.”
“It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.”
“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.”
“Relationship is understanding. It is a process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself -- to be is to be related.”
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