Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.

The principle of martial arts is not a thing that can be learned, like a science, by fact-finding and instruction in facts. It has to grow spontaneously, like a flower, in a mind free from emotions and desires.

It's the law of averages: put in more, come out with more.

When you fight, if it is a real fight, use every tool that you have, use your whole body. Use your fists, your legs, your fingers, your head if you have to, and hit them in every vulnerable spot, the balls, the eyes etc. to win.

Life is better lived than conceptualized. — This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I’ve come to understand that life is best to be lived — not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand.

Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.