“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.”

—  Bruce Lee

Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 23

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Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and f… 1940–1973

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