“Life is better lived than conceptualized.”

— Bruce Lee

This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I've come to understand that life is best to be lived — not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand.
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 45

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