The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness.
In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.
Self-Conquest is the greatest of victories. Mighty is he who conquers himself.
Without frustration you will not discover that you might be able to do something on your own. We grow through conflict.
Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery – a process without end.
Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.
To develop the creative attitude, analyze and focus on the wanted SOLUTION; seek out and fill your mind with the FACTS; write down ideas, both sensible and seemingly wild; let the facts and ideas simmer in your mind; evaluate, recheck, settle on the creative ideas.
When you’re talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you’d better train every part of your body!
Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
I’m a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.
Learn it all, then forget it all.
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow – you are not understanding yourself.
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action and, more importantly, his thinking becomes mechanical. His responses become automatic, according to set patterns, making him narrow and limited.