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While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment desire develops, and from desire anger arises.

From anger, delusion arises, and from delusion bewilderment of memory. When memory is bewildered, intelligence is lost, and when intelligence is lost, one falls down again into the material pool.

fear...

What is this constant despair? Man is either running after his desires which he cannot fulfill, or he is running away from the fears which he cannot fight. There can be a simple way of living. Never fight against the forces stronger than yourself - within and outside you - like your instincts, your hunger, the storm or the gravity. Because no matter how hard or how long you fight these forces, you will be the loser in the end. But to know what is stronger and what is not, requires a lot of practice, awareness & thought - which gets sidelined or de-prioritized because of the ongoing race.

epiphany...

You can never be perfect, but you can always be a perfectionist...

believe in me...

Some people can never believe in themselves, until someone believes in them... -Good Will Hunting.

kite...

Life is not only about those moments when everything was beautiful, everybody was smiling and you had camera in your hands.

no reason...

From House MD.

JM: If I had killed you, would it have mattered?
GH: Not to me.
JM: You don't care if you live or die?
GH: I care because I live. I can't care if I'm dead.
JM: I don't want to hear semantics.
GH: You anti-semantic bastard.

JM: Would anybody care that the world lost that wit?
GH: [Writing an equation of the wall] Working here.
JM: You don't have to say anything. Just let me soak into your sub-conscious. You think that the only truth that matters is the truth that can be measured. Good intentions don't count, what's in your heart doesn't count, caring doesn't count. A man's life can't be measured by how many tears are shed when he dies. It's because you can't measure them, just because you don't want to measure them, doesn't mean it's not real.

GH: [Looking at the equation] That does not make any sense.
JM: And even if i'm wrong, you're still miserable. Did you really think that your only purpose is to sacrifice yourself and get nothing in return? No. You believe there is no purpose... to anything. Even the lives you save you dismiss. You turn the one decent thing in your life and you taint it, strip it of all meaning. You're miserable for nothing. I don't know why you'd want to live.

GH: [Turning from his writing on the wall] I'm sorry.

s/he'll be loved...

Problem with being a grown up is that a person ends up learning how to pretend, how to say things s/he doesn't mean, how to hide things s/he actually feels. Broken smiles, cheerless eyes - honesty of the face is lost.

low man's lyric...

"Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a child. He was once small. A sense of smallness forms a substratum in his mind, ineradicably. His triumphs will be measured against this smallness, his defeats will substantiate it. The questions as to who is bigger and who can do or not do this or that, and to whom—these questions fill the adult’s inner life far beyond the necessities and the desirabilities which he understands and for which he plans." - Erik H. Erikson

peace...

The moment when you reload your rifle. -Bob Dylan.

weak as i am...

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. -Marlene Dietrich.

creep...

A person does not feel miserable because of the unfavorable, dark and painful things surrounding his or her life. Real cause of misery is the belief which has roots deep down in the heart of the person, that s/he is not capable, not strong enough to make choices or to change things. To reap the crop of confidence and satisfaction one needs to cultivate strength, but if one cultivates weakness, one reaps the harvest of fear and misery.

let go...

There are decisive moments when I ask 'how will it affect my future?' I allow the fear of distant uncertainty decide my present, when I should actually let the certainty of present shape my future.

viva la vida...

People are running towards a dead-end. How does it matter if one hits the wall today, yesterday or tomorrow. Faster one runs, harder he's going to get hit...

only time...

It's always wise to get a good glance of the reality before cultivating any dream. Because...

what life could mean to you...

What Life Could Mean to You - a book by Alfred Adler

solitary confinement...

Aldous Huxley once wrote - 'our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement'. On same subject a few quotes from here and there...

- Loneliness has followed me my whole life, in bars and cars. I can't escape it. I'm God's lonely man. (From Taxi Driver)

- They're sharing a drink they call loneliness, but it's better than drinking alone.

- We suffer a lot in our society from loneliness. So much of our life is an attempt to not be lonely: 'Let's talk to each other; let's do things together so we won't be lonely.' And yet inevitably, we are really alone in these human forms. We can pretend; we can entertain each other; but that's about the best we can do. When it comes to the actual experience of life, we're very much alone; and to expect anyone else to take away our loneliness is asking too much.

- Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self.

- Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

- It doesn't matter how strong you are. No one can defeat loneliness.

- Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space.

- Life is very long when you're lonely.

- At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

A little difference between solitude and loneliness. Solitude, technically, is more positive and enlightening than loneliness.

truth is a pathless land...

- Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself; do not go out looking for a successful personality and duplicate it.

- Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do.

- Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. LEARN, MASTER AND ACHIEVE!

- The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease.

- The more relaxed the muscles are, the more energy can flow through the body. Using muscular tensions to try to "do" the punch, or attempting to use brute force to knock someone over, will only work to opposite effect.

- The possession of anything begins in the mind.

- The best fighter is not a Boxer, Karate or Judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adapt on any style. He kicks too good for a Boxer, throws too good for a Karate man, and punches too good for a Judo man.

- If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

More quotes from Bruce Lee here.

Title of this post is a master liner from Jiddu Krishnamurthy who influenced Bruce Lee's (and of many others too) philosophy. More quotes here.