"The More we value things, the less we value ourselves"
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"Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed."
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"I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowled"
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"To see is to be decieved. To hear is to be lied to. To FEEL is to believe."
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"Put every great teacher in a room, and they'd agree about everything, but put their disciples in there and they'd argue about everything."
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"What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds 'body feel' and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity."
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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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"The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness."
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"A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being hit is inevitable, strike back twice as hard."
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"Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless."
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"Do not have an attitude, open yourself and focus yourself and express yourself. Reject external form that fails to express internal reality."
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"Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind."
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"You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them."
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"A good teacher can never be fixed in a routine... each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting. A teacher must never impose this student to fit his favourite pattern; a good teacher functions as a pointer, exposing his student's vulnerability and causing him to explore both internally and finally integrating himself with his being. Martial art should not be passed out indiscriminately."
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"Without frustration you will not discover that you might be able to do something on your own. We grow through conflict."
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"No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness."
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"A person cannot forget someone who is good to them."
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"In life, what more can you ask for than to be real?"
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"Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art."
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"Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind."
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