I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.
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.
If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.
The highest technique is to have no technique. My technique is a result of your technique; my movement is a result of your movement.
Be a practical dreamer backed by action.
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 develop the creative attitude, analyze and focus on the wanted SOLUTION; seek out and fill your mind with the FACTS; write down ideas, both sensible and seemingly wild; let the facts and ideas simmer in your mind; evaluate, recheck, settle on the creative ideas.
Action is a high road to self-confidence and esteem. Where it is open, all energies flow toward it. It comes readily to most people, and its rewards are tangible.
Never waste energy on worries or negative thoughts, all problems are brought into existence -drop them.
Truth cannot be structured or confined.
To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else.
Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear.
A good teacher can never be fixed in a routine... each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting. A teacher must never impose this student to fit his favourite pattern; a good teacher functions as a pointer, exposing his student's vulnerability and causing him to explore both internally and finally integrating himself with his being. Martial art should not be passed out indiscriminately.
Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment.
You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.
Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better.
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe.
There’s only one basic principle of self-defense- you must apply the most effective weapon, as soon as possible, to the most vulnerable target.
Observe what is with undivided awareness.
Training is one of the most neglected phases of athletics. Too much time is given to the development of skill and too little to the development of the individual for participation.
Don't ignore the five senses in search of a sixth.
If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.
We do not become. We simply are.
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