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“The Now is indivisible. — Completeness, the now, is an absence of the conscious mind to strive to divide that which is indivisible. For once the completeness of things is taken apart it is no longer complete.”

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Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 15

“Life lives; and in the living flow, no questions are raised. The reason is that life is a living now! So, in order to live life whole-heartedly, the answer is life simply is.”

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Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 3

“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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Part 6 "Beyond System — The Ultimate Source of Jeet Kune Do"
Jeet Kune Do (1997)

“Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe.”

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Part 6 "Beyond System — The Ultimate Source of Jeet Kune Do"
Jeet Kune Do (1997)

“Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit in with all styles.”

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Bruce Lee livre Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do (1975), p. 12 
Contexte: Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit in with all styles. As a result, Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound by none and, likewise, uses any techniques which serve its end.

“In Jeet Kune Do, it’s not how much you have learned, but how much you have absorbed from what you have learned. It is not how much fixed knowledge you can accumulate, but what you can apply livingly that counts. ‘Being’ is more valued than "doing."”

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Source: The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996), p. 117

“The dualistic philosophy reigned supreme in Europe, dominating the development of Western science. But with the advent of atomic physics, findings based on demonstrable experiment were seen to negate the dualistic theory, and the trend of thought since then has been back to the monistic conception of the ancient Taoists.”

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Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p.. 21

“When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist.”

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Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 22

“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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Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 15 - 16

“Reality is being itself. — It is being itself, in becoming itself. Reality in its isness, the "isness" of a thing. Thus isness is the meaning — having freedom in its primary sense — not limited by attachments, confinements, partialization, complexities.”

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Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 19

“If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.”

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Source: The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996), p. 64

“Taoist philosophy … is essentially monistic. … Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.”

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Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 23

“Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive; having no opposite, there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. The all illuminating light shines and is beyond the movement of the opposites.”

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Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 23

“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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Part 5 "On training in Jeet Kune Do"
Jeet Kune Do (1997)

“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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Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 19

“The change is from inner to outer. — We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions.”

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Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 120

“The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.”

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Part 6 "Beyond System — The Ultimate Source of Jeet Kune Do"
Jeet Kune Do (1997)

“You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I mean I don't want to be like "As Confucius say," but under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family. It just so happens man that people are different.”

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Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview (1971)

“True thusness is the substance of thought, and thought is the function of true thusness. There is no thought except that of true thusness. Thusness does not move, but its motion and function are inexhaustible.”

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Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 42

“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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Part 6 "Beyond System — The Ultimate Source of Jeet Kune Do"
Jeet Kune Do (1997)

“When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!”

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Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview (1971)

“Concentration is the ROOT of all the higher abilities in man.”

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Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 11

“As an instructor, you must be able to distinguish between poor performance caused by lack of ability or aptitude on the part of the student and poor performance caused by lack of effort. You should treat the first with patience and the latter with firmness. You must never apply sarcasm and ridicule.”

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Part 5 "On training in Jeet Kune Do"
Jeet Kune Do (1997)

“The aphorism "as a man thinketh in his heart so is he" contains the secret of life.”

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Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 4; Lee here quotes Proverbs 23:7 "As he thinketh in his heart, so is he."

“To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.”

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Source: The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996), p. 30

“None whatsoever.”

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When asked what major religion he was affiliated with in 1972 by journalist Alex Ben Block, p. 128
The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)

“Revolutionize your mind. ”

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“When I look around, I always learn something: to be always yourself, and to express yourself, to have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”

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Radio interview with Ted Thomas (1972) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la_D3oF5H_A

“Cease negative mental chattering.”

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If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 121

“The change is from inner to outer.”

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We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions.
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 120