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• 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.

  Bruce Lee

  Mirrors, Self, Existential

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• The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being

  Bruce Lee

  Men, Mma, Moral

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.65, Tuttle Publishing

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• Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception.

  Bruce Lee

  Choices, Anxiety, Perception

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Reflection, Soul

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.136, Tuttle Publishing

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• You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup.

  Bruce Lee

  Water, Cups

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• But to those who kept saying
  "It can't be done,"
  Never are the victories
  Or the honors won.
  But, rather,
  By the believing, doing kind,
  While the doubters
  Watched from far behind.

  Bruce Lee

  Believe, Honor, Victory

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.255, Tuttle Publishing

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• Bring the mind to a sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere.

  Bruce Lee

  Focus, Mind

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.39, Tuttle Publishing

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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.

  Bruce Lee

  Memories, Lying, Mind

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.9, Tuttle Publishing

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• As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.

  Bruce Lee

  Faith, Confidence, Spiritual

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• A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Responsibility, Accepting

  "Fictional character: Lee". "Enter the Dragon", www.imdb.com. 1973.

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• Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Moving, Mastery

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.5, Tuttle Publishing

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• If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that.

  Bruce Lee

  Want, Littles, Should

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.117, Tuttle Publishing

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• Willing is not enough, one must apply.

  Bruce Lee

  Enough, Willing

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• Go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization... Search within... for honest self- expression.

  Bruce Lee

  Self, Expression, Mma

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• To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Style, Genius

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.61, Tuttle Publishing

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• 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.

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  Dream, Positivity, Power

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.377, Tuttle Publishing

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• Love is like a friendship caught on fire.

  Bruce Lee

  Love, Romantic, Soulmate

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.96, Tuttle Publishing

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• Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.

  Bruce Lee

  Trouble, Easily Offended, Offended

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.375, Tuttle Publishing

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• The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

  Bruce Lee

  Running, Simplicity, Design

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.19, Tuttle Publishing

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• The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Vision, World

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.

  Bruce Lee

  Tools, Moments, Strikes

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.197, Tuttle Publishing

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• Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.

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  Powerful, Learning, Knowing

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.40, Tuttle Publishing

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• Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.

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  Giving Up, Thinking, Technique

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art”, p.78, Tuttle Publishing

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• Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing

  Bruce Lee

  Men, Ideas, Way

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.61, Tuttle Publishing

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• I don't believe in getting something for nothing.

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  Believe, Don't Believe

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.83, Tuttle Publishing

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