李小龍 Bruce Lee


Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. It flows through the slightest crack. There is nothing to try to do but try to be purposeless and formless, like water. Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. 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. Running water never grows stale. So you just have to ‘keep on flowing.’ Be water, my friend.

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