Only after several years of training did I come to realize that the deepest purpose of the martial arts is to serve as a vehicle for personal spiritual development.
Those who are patient in the trivial things in life and control themselves will one day have the same mastery in great and important things.
To generate great power you must first totally relax and gather your strength, and then concentrate your mind and all your strength on hitting your target.
Anger doesn’t demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.
Only by constantly exposing myself to someone better than I have I been able to improve.
One of the first lessons one learns is that the mind is a powerful factor in everything you do, including those exercises that seem to require a maximum of physical strength.
When one eye is fixed upon your destination, there is only one eye left with which to find the Way.
Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort.
What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well.
When you lose your temper, you lose yourself – on the mat as well as in life.
When a problem arises, don’t fight with it or try to deny it. Accept and acknowledge it. Be patient in seeking a solution or opening, and then fully commit yourself to the resolution you think advisable.
For example, if you are fearful your mind will freeze, motion will be stopped and you will be defeated. If your mind is fixed on victory or defeating your opponent, you will be unable to function automatically.
To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill.
I can defeat you physically with or without a reason. But I can only defeat your mind with a reason. – JIM LAU.
For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom, nor for the uncontrolled is there the power of concentration; and for him without concentration there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful, how can there be happiness? – BHAGAVAD GITA.
The mind is like a fertile garden,” Bruce said. “It will grow anything you wish to plant – beautiful flowers or weeds. And so it is with successful, healthy thoughts or with negative ones that will, like weeds, strangle and crowd the others. Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.