"Each moment that passes changes you...You can't even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else."
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"Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself."
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"A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred the human law in himself, his own individual will."
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"The Western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality - to talk about reality, to go around reality, to catch anything that attracts our sense-intellect and abstract it away from reality itself. Thus philosophy begins by saying that the outside world is not a basic fact, that its existence can be doubted and that every proposition in which the reality of the outside world is affirmed is not an evident proposition but one that needs to be divided, dissected and analyzed. It is to stand consciously aside and try to square a circle."
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"Self-Conquest is the greatest of victories. Mighty is he who conquers himself."
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"Either you understand or you don't, and that is that."
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"When one has reached maturity in this art, one will have the formless form. It is like the dissolving or thawing [of] ice into water that can shape itself to any structure. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, one can fit in with any style."
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"The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions."
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"The possession of anything begins in the mind."
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"A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, "I" do not hit, "it" hits all by itself."
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"Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion"
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"When we suddenly awake to the realization that there is no barrier, and never has been, one realizes that one is all things mountains, rivers, grasses, trees, sun, moon, stars, universe are all oneself. There is no longer a division or barrier between myself and others, no longer any feeling of alienation or fear there is nothing apart from oneself and therefore nothing to fear. Realizing this results in true compassion. Other people and things are not seen as apart from oneself but, on the contrary, as one's own body."
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"Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy."
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"Once I slow down because I think I have reached my peak, then my skills will go nowhere but down"
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"The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is."
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"Live a life worth remembering."
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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"
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"An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more."
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"The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow."
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"Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today."
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