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" Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." - Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee is one of my heroes. He rejected the idea of strict adherence to a particular style...refused to do things a certain way just because that's the way it was always done. He said, "Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it. " Instead of debating which form of martial arts was the best, he took what he liked from each of them and created his own.
Someone left a comment that now was a good time to be Zen. You made me remember Bruce's philosophy.
8 comments:
nice. some great wisdom in bruce's words...if we settled for the way it was always done...we would never get anywhere new...
By being true to oneself - it is only then that we are able to learn and to grow and all of it can be so wonderful.....:-)Hugs
Great idea if you can work it!
I flow most of the time.
Love the Bruce Lee quote!!
That's a very interesting quote!
Wise words, wish I could live up to that ideal...
..yeah, be like water... adaptability and flexibility in this world full of changes... what a great reflection i have in here... you have a very nice space in here... i think, i would love to be part!!!(^^)
A Blessed Sunday!!!:)
>Kelvin
He was deffinately a leader and not a follower.
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