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“Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.”
To realize that it's just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up.
Quelle: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 120
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Quelle: The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996), p. 174
As quoted in Bruce Lee: Artist of Life (1999) edited by John R. Little, p. 192
Quelle: The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996), p. 156
Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
Quelle: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 121
“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.
Quelle: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 44
“Balance your thoughts with action.”
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
Quelle: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 43
“Liberate yourself from concepts and see the truth with your own eyes.”
It exists HERE and NOW; it requires only one thing to see it: openness, freedom — the freedom to be open and not tethered by any ideas, concepts, etc. … When our mind is tranquil, there will be an occasional pause to its feverish activities, there will be a let-go, and it is only then in the interval between two thoughts that a flash of UNDERSTANDING — understanding, which is not thought — can take place.
Quelle: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 43
“Conditioning obstructs our view of reality.”
We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.
Quelle: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 19
I couldn't live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.
Quelle: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 13
“Seek to understand the root.”
It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branch, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.
Quelle: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 11