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We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement.
The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.
Each moment that passes changes you...You can't even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else.
The most important thing to me is, how, in the process of learning how to use my body, can I come to understand myself ?
When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!
The three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of leisure.
Since life is an ever evolving process, one should flow in this process and discover how to actualize and expand oneself.
With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.
If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen.
I'm very grateful for every thing I have. You know when you start losing that then you start losing what life's all about.
Jiu Jitsu is a mousetrap. The trap does not chase the mouse. But when the mouse grabs the cheese, the trap plays its role.
PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace enables you to rise above praise or blame, and it frees you from attachment to this and that.
Jeet Kune Do: it's just a name; don't fuss over it. There's no such thing as a style if you understand the roots of combat.
There are few problems in this world that cannot be solved by a swift roundhouse kick to the face. In fact, there are none.
One of my life's principles is to develop myself to the maximum of my potential in all ways and to help others do the same.
Martial arts was really the first thing in my life that I followed through on and accomplished a degree of proficiency for.
Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.
The timeless moment. - The "moment" has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.
People have a hard time believing that, but not having a father around, being shy, I just never participated in sports much.
I am fascinated by air. If you remove the air from the sky, all the birds would fall to the ground. And all the planes, too.
Life itself is always a trial. In training, you must test and polish yourself in order to face the great challenges of life.
The true mark of maturity is when someone hurts you and you try and understand their situation instead of hurting them back.
I have the absolute confidence not to be number two, but then I have enough sense to realize that there can be no number one.
You can always tell a person's real character and personhood by those who closely surround him, especially if they're family.
There are no pure styles of karate. Purity comes only when pure knuckles meet pure flesh, no matter who delivers or receives.
Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force.
THE TECHNIQUES OF the Art of Peace are neither fast nor slow, nor are they inside or outside.. They transcend time and space.
Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice - continuous effort.
Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness.
It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first.
To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure.
Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.
We either go one direction, left, which would be socialism. Or right, which would be people trying to make the money themselves.
The key to good technique is to keep your hands, feet, and hips straight and centered. If you are centered, you can move freely.
Aiki is not a technique to fight with or defeat an enemy. It is the way to reconcile the world and make human beings one family.
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
Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.
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.
The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.
Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.
My acting is atrocious, to say the least. But I've found that it's not acting that people are concerned about, it's your presence.
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.
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.
A walk in nature is a perfect backdrop to combine exercise, prayer, and meditation while enhancing the benefit of these activities.
According to statistics, one person out of five is disturbed. If there are four people around you who seem normal, that's not good.
A man may have the best of wealth, cars and fame. But there is nothing more precious in life that he will get than a woman's heart.
I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life.