Before I learned martial arts, a punch was just a punch and a kick was just a kick. When I studied martial arts, a punch was no longer just a punch and a kick was no longer just a kick. Now I understand martial arts, and a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.

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The unfolding of the bare human soul…that is what interests me.

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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.

Bruce Lee http://joshuastarlight.tumblr.com/post/68272221170/truth-has-no-path-truth-is-living-and-therefore

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When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow — you are not understanding yourself.

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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.

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Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

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Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

Bruce Lee http://joshuastarlight.tumblr.com/post/68271708913/dont-get-set-into-one-form-adapt-it-and-build

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Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

Bruce Lee http://joshuastarlight.tumblr.com/post/68271627887/use-only-that-which-works-and-take-it-from-any

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Put every great teacher together in a room, and they’d agree about everything, put their disciples in there and they’d argue about everything.

Bruce Lee (Born November 27, 1940) http://joshuastarlight.tumblr.com/post/68271525623/put-every-great-teacher-together-in-a-room-and

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