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.
People fear what they do not understand.
If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.
We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create
The principle of martial arts is not a thing that can be learned, like a science, by fact-finding and instruction in facts. It has to grow spontaneously, like a flower, in a mind free from emotions and desires.
Seek freedom from the conformity of styles
You will never get any more out of this life than you expect.
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.
Since life is an ever evolving process, one should flow in this process and discover how to actualize and expand oneself.
An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.
Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.
Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.
Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.
The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire- soon it will go out.
The unconditioned mind intuits truth.
In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.
When one has no form, one can be all forms.
What Is, is more important than What Should Be.
I don't believe in getting something for nothing.
All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.
To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.
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.
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.
In life, what more can you ask for than to be real?
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