“The round of summer and winter becomes a blessing the moment we give up the fantasy of an eternal spring.” “A fat belly cannot believe that such a thing as hunger exists.” The cultivation of your spirit and root does not happen automatically, one must work on it and cannot quit when it gets tough. “The cultivation of the spirit is elusive and difficult and the tendency toward it is rarely spontaneous.” “Every circumstance of every man’s life is the result of a definite cause, but mode and control are yours.”Ĭircumstances can be thrust upon you, but you have the ability to control how you react to those circumstances and how you move forward. Most of our prisons are in our own minds and you have to decide you want freedom from those thoughts before you can move forward. The first step in the good life process is freeing your mind from the limiting thoughts that are preventing you from engaging fully in life. The process of a good life is when you understand that you have the freedom to move in any direction and that you are actively engaged in making those choices. The good life constituted a direction selected by the total organism when there is freedom to move in any direction.” ![]() “The good life is a process, it’s not a state of being. The direct wording of the “Do not pray…” quote is also about commitment. What causes such realization, and subsequently causes a shift in one’s behavior? To be real, to accept responsibility for oneself.”īruce is teaching us to accept the responsibility for who we really are and accept the real occurrences that happen in a real life. “One is the captain of one’s soul, the master of one’s life. It’s about inviting all of the experiences, including the challenges and catastrophes, because every experience has a lesson in it.īruce Lee’s method of endurance was the act of being in the flow. The “endurance” is about having the stamina to experience your whole life-all the ups and downs. ![]() Bruce Lee was about keeping the mind on the positive and being in the flow. ![]() When you understand who Bruce Lee was as a total human being, you know he could not have had the negative mentality that life was a constant struggle to be defended against. However, if you only look at Bruce Lee as the ripped warrior who can kick ass, it is easy to misinterpret this quote to be about getting tough and developing physical strength to defend against a difficult life. If you put this quote in the context of Bruce Lee’s other writings, it’s clear this quote is about flowing through life as a path to ease. The point of life is to fully feel and experience all the variety that our human experience offers. Don’t aspire to a fantasy that insulates you from the real. There are fantasy lifestyles presented to us in media and online and “reality” TV, that make us feel bad for not having the money, fame or toys those fantasies require. Develop yourself as a human being so that you can flow through the obstacles as they come.ĭon’t pray for a passive life or the fantasy of a life that is completely without difficulties. In fact don’t pray for an easy or a hard life, live your life, be present, live in the moment, and be an active participant in your life without expectation or judgment about what your life is, or isn’t. If you have developed your root, your core, the knowledge and understanding of who you are, when you encounter difficulties in life you can easily navigate them. This negative mindset creates so much of the difficulty in our lives.ĭon’t be complacent in the living of your life. Life is not meant to be hard or something to fight against but many of us are stuck in a story about how hard our life is. ![]() An easy life is not something you get because you pray for it or fight for it, the ease comes when you practice self-actualization and achieve peace of mind. Within the context of Bruce Lee’s philosophy of harmony, the “strength” Bruce is referring to is one of calm and flow. But these words are not really about praying for the strength to fight against a hard life. Sometimes this quote is misunderstood-out of context it seems like Bruce is encouraging you to toughen up because winter is coming. “Do not pray for an easy life pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
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