If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Bring the mind to a sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere.
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.
A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.
The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.
We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement.
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.
Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
Self-will seems to be the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws.
Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.
Let yourself go with dis-ease, be with it, and keep it company. This is the way to be rid of it.
Understanding comes about through feeling, from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship.
A good martial artist does not become tend but ready, not thinking but jet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come.
Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book.
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 there is always light, you don’t experience light anymore. You have to have the rhythm of light and darkness.
The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire- soon it will go out.
Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.
To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.
Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.
A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible.
Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself.
Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.
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.
The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.
More and more I believe in the fact that you have two hands and two legs, and the thing is how to make good use of yourself - and that's about it.
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.
I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.
I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient.
Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.
Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected.
When finger point at moon, don't look at finger or you'll miss the moon.
Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.
