Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

Put the different fragments of the dream together and re-own these fragmented parts; re-own the hidden potential in the dream. As we progress and time changes, it is often necessary to reform the formula.

you are in response to your environment all the time, your environment becomes a reflection of you.

Life is not a competition; it’s a cocreation.

Attachment to outcome is denial of one’s true commitment to self.

Freedom is something that cannot be preconceived. To realize freedom requires an alert mind, a mind that is deep with energy, a mind that is capable of immediate perception without the process of graduation, without the idea of an end to be slowly achieved … At this point, many would ask, “how then do we gain this unlimited freedom?” I cannot tell

The waters are in motion all the time, but the moon retains its serenity. The mind moves in response to the ten thousand situations but remains ever the same.

The maximizing of one’s potential is not the tallying of accomplishments, but the continual engagement in life as a process of unlimited growth.

“Stand at the neutral point between negative and positive,” he wrote, “no longer directing one’s mind to anything. Emptiness is that which stands right in the middle of this and that. Never be for or against. The struggle between ‘for’ and ‘against’ is the mind’s worst disease. Do not like or dislike, and all will then be clear.”

This sense of freedom results from learning how to flow effortlessly in life.