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Postby yat_chum » Sat Aug 23, 2008 2:53 am

"Kuen yao sum faat" - (Fist comes from the heart). Wing Chun Kuen saying
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Aug 24, 2008 4:43 am

"God to enfold me,
God to surround me,
God in my speaking,
God in my thinking.

God in my sleeping,
God in my waking,
God in my watching,
God in my hoping.

God in my life,
God in my lips,
God in my soul,
God in my heart.

God in my sufficing,
God in my slumber,
God in mine ever-living soul,
God in mine eternity."

Ancient Celtic oral traditions - Carmina Gadelica
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Aug 25, 2008 2:10 am

"It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well."
Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Aug 26, 2008 4:13 am

"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."
Albert Einstein
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:24 am

"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand."
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, October 2002
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Aug 28, 2008 4:43 am

Shaolin Abbot: I see your talents have gone beyond the mere physical level. Your skills are now at the point of spiritual insight. I have several questions. What is the highest technique you hope to achieve ?
Bruce Lee: To have no technique.
Shaolin Abbot: Very good. What are your thoughts when facing an opponent ?
Bruce Lee: There is no opponent.
Shaolin Abbot: And why is that ?
Bruce Lee: Because the word "I" does not exist.
Shaolin Abbot: So, continue...
Bruce Lee: A good fight should be like a small play, but played seriously. A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract. When he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit. It hits all by itself.
Shaolin Abbot: Now, you must remember: the enemy has only images and illusions behind which he hides his true motives. Destroy the image and you will break the enemy.

Enter the Dragon. (1973)
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Aug 29, 2008 4:34 am

"Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows."
Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919)
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Postby yat_chum » Sat Aug 30, 2008 5:01 am

“If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Aug 31, 2008 4:37 am

"Some kill living beings for sacrificial purposes,
Some kill for their skins,
Some kill for their flesh,
Some for the blood, heart, liver, fat, feathers or teeth....
Some out of fear.
He who is disinclined to kill the smallest living thing,
knows what suffering is, because he who sees and understands
the real cause of his own happiness and pains, knows others' too.

And he who sees and understands
others' feelings also knows his own feelings.
This is the way one must compare oneself with others.
Knowing what is bad, he who knows it with regard to himself
knows it with regard to the world;

And he who knows it with regard to the world outside,
knows it with regard to himself.
This reciprocity between oneself and others
(one should mind)."
Lord Mahavir - Acharanga Sutra - stanza 1.6.55
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Sep 01, 2008 2:05 am

"Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete."
Willie Shoemaker
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:27 am

"When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it."
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:20 pm

"Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred."
W. N. Taylor
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Sep 04, 2008 2:09 am

"The devil makes work for idle hands." English proverb
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Sep 05, 2008 1:44 am

"Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?"
Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
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Postby yat_chum » Sat Sep 06, 2008 1:43 am

"All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power."
Allegra Kent, Once a Dancer…
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Sep 07, 2008 4:06 am

"Happiness be the lot of him who works
for the happiness of others.
May the Lord grant him health and endurance."
Gathas of Zarathushtra - Yasna 43:1 - ±1700 bce.
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Sep 08, 2008 1:59 am

"Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any."
Arthur Wellesley (1769 - 1852), (first Duke of Wellington)
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Sep 09, 2008 1:29 am

"Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:02 am

"Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid."
Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Sep 11, 2008 1:38 am

"The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going."
David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931)
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