“Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle toward a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.”
― Tao of Jeet Kune Do: New Expanded Edition
― Tao of Jeet Kune Do: New Expanded Edition
“Who himself is not the cause of his own unrest? Reflect how no one is hampered by any other; and that all is as thinking makes it so.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Every moral precept is an delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue.”
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“If I've thought of my mother as callous, and many times I have, then it is important to remember what a callus is: the hardened tissue that forms over a wound.”
― Transcendent Kingdom
― Transcendent Kingdom
“I'm not in this business primarily to describe or explain or entertain. I'm here to make the reader think, even if I have to bash his teeth out, break his legs, grind him up, beat him down, and totally chastise him for the terrible and tinsel and almost wholly bad world we allow.”
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