There are lots of guys around the world that are lazy. They have big fat guts. They talk about chi power and things they can do, but don't believe it.

We do not become. We simply are.

when one is not expressing himself, he is not free. thus, he begins to struggle and the struggle breeds methodical routine. Soon, he is doing his methodical routine as response rather than responding to what is.

A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.

Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.

Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.

After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.