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
The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating thoughts we allow to gather in our head. All concepts of self-improvement, all actions and paths we take, relate solely to our abstract image of ourselves. Life is limited only by how we really see ourselves and feel about our being. A great deal of pure self-knowledge and inner understanding allows us to lay an all-important foundation for the structure of our life from which we can perceive and take the right avenues.
Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead!
Emptiness the starting point. — In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.
When you freely express, you are the total style.
Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear.
Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.
The highest technique is to have no technique. My technique is a result of your technique; my movement is a result of your movement.
Understanding comes about through feeling, from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship.
What comes after victory? Why do people value victory so much? What is 'glory'? What kind of victory is 'glorious'?
Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that.
You will never learn anything new unless you are ready to accept yourself with your limitations. You must accept the fact that you are capable in some directions and limited in others, and you must develop your capabilities.
Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.
I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
I'm moving and not moving at all. I'm like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and rocking. It is not, "I am doing this," but rather, an inner realization that "this is happening through me," or "it is doing this for me." The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.
You will never get any more out of this life than you expect.
Are you going to let the obstacles in your life be stumbling blocks or stepping stones? Choose the positive. You are the master of your attitude.
To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure.
Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking people, punching people - because if you do (makes gun shape with hand), well that's it - I don't care how good you are.
Like the cobra, you remain coiled in a loose but compact position and your strike should be felt before it is seen.
There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturing. Because when there is a maturity, there is a conclusion and a cessation. That’s the end. That’s when the coffin is closed. You might be deteriorating physically in the long process of aging, but your personal process of daily discovery is ongoing. You continue to learn more and more about yourself every day.
Before me now there is only one real fact -- Death. The truth I have been seeking -- this truth is Death. Yet Death is also a seeker. Forever seeking me. So -- we have met at last. And I am prepared. I am at peace. Because I will conquer death with death.
I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.
I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.
Take what's useful, discard what is not.
Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.
Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.
We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent.
Life is an ever-flowing process and somewhere on the path some unpleasant things will pop up - it might leave a scar, but then life is flowing, and like running water, when it stops it grows stale. Go bravely on, my friend, because each experience teaches us a lesson. Keep blasting because life is such that sometimes it is nice and sometimes it is not.
Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.
A kung fu man lives without being dependant on the opinions of others, and a master, unlike the beginner, holds himself in reserve. He is quiet and unassuming, with no desire to show off.
It's the law of averages: put in more, come out with more.
Efficiency is anything that scores.
For something that is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way or a definite path; but not for anything that is moving and living.
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.
Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.
Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected.
A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.
All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.
As long as we separate this oneness into two we won't achieve realization.
Seek freedom from the conformity of styles
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!
The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we come to fully understand our potential and ourselves. After all, knowledge in the martial arts ultimately means self-knowledge.
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
Remember, Life is a journey, not a destination.
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.
To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else.
I don't want to do anything halfway. It has to be perfect.
Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.
The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.
A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible.
Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!
Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.
Having totality means being capable of following "what is," because "what is" is constantly moving and constantly changing. If one is anchored to a particular view, one will not be able to follow the swift movement of "what is.
If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.
Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
