Dont Pray for a an Easy Life Quote

"Do non pray for an like shooting fish in a barrel life; pray for the force to endure a hard one."

Sometimes this quote is misunderstood—out of context it seems like Bruce is encouraging you to toughen up considering winter is coming. Merely these words are not actually well-nigh praying for the force to fight confronting a hard life. Inside the context of Bruce Lee'south philosophy of harmony, the "strength" Bruce is referring to is one of at-home and flow. An easy life is not something you get considering you pray for it or fight for information technology, the ease comes when you lot practice self-actualization and accomplish peace of mind.

Life is not meant to be hard or something to fight confronting simply many of us are stuck in a story near how difficult our life is. This negative mindset creates so much of the difficulty in our lives.

Don't be complacent in the living of your life. If you take developed your root, your cadre, the noesis and understanding of who you are, when you encounter difficulties in life yous tin can hands navigate them.

In fact don't pray for an easy or a hard life, live your life, exist present, live in the moment, and be an agile participant in your life without expectation or judgment nigh what your life is, or isn't. Develop yourself as a human being beingness so that yous can flow through the obstacles as they come up.

Don't pray for a passive life or the fantasy of a life that is completely without difficulties. At that place are fantasy lifestyles presented to us in media and online and "reality" Television, that make us feel bad for not having the coin, fame or toys those fantasies require. Don't aspire to a fantasy that insulates y'all from the real. The signal of life is to fully feel and experience all the variety that our human being feel offers.

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. However, if you only look at Bruce Lee as the ripped warrior who can kicking ass, it is piece of cake to misinterpret this quote to be well-nigh getting tough and developing physical strength to defend against a difficult life. When you understand who Bruce Lee was equally a total human being, y'all know he could non have had the negative mentality that life was a constant struggle to be defended confronting. Bruce Lee was about keeping the mind on the positive and being in the flow.

The "endurance" is about having the stamina to experience your whole life—all the ups and downs. It'south most inviting all of the experiences, including the challenges and catastrophes, because every experience has a lesson in it.

Bruce Lee's method of endurance was the act of being in the flow.

"One is the helm of one's soul, the master of one's life. What causes such realization, and subsequently causes a shift in one's behavior? To exist real, to have responsibility for oneself."

Bruce is teaching u.s. to have the responsibleness for who we really are and have the existent occurrences that happen in a real life.

The direct diction of the "Practise not pray…" quote is also about commitment. Be committed to living a full life. Comprehend all of life and dive deep.

"The skilful life is a procedure, information technology's non a land of existence. The adept life constituted a management selected past the total organism when there is freedom to move in whatever direction."

The process of a good life is when y'all empathize that you have the freedom to movement in any direction and that you are actively engaged in making those choices.

The first stride in the practiced life procedure is freeing your mind from the limiting thoughts that are preventing y'all from engaging fully in life. You have to own your own power. Most of our prisons are in our own minds and you have to decide y'all desire liberty from those thoughts earlier you can motion forwards.

"Every circumstance of every human being's life is the result of a definite crusade, but mode and command are yours."

Circumstances can be thrust upon you, but you have the ability to control how y'all react to those circumstances and how you movement forward.

"The cultivation of the spirit is elusive and difficult and the trend toward it is rarely spontaneous."

The cultivation of your spirit and root does not happen automatically, 1 must work on it and cannot quit when it gets tough.

"A fat abdomen cannot believe that such a thing as hunger exists."

"The round of summertime and wintertime becomes a approving the moment we give up the fantasy of an eternal spring."

How practise you look at life? What does information technology mean to have a full life? You take to experience the full spectrum, not just the fantasy of an eternal spring.

"The true stillness is the stillness in movement."

If you develop your inner being and you accept a potent root from which you office, and so your life tin be moving effectually y'all in a spiral of ups and downwardly.

"The root is the fulcrum on which will rest the expression of your soul."

If you lot can develop this root and feel centered, then y'all can handle whatsoever comes your way without toppling over.

Bruce Lee worked out extensively and trained hard, simply information technology was effortless for him as he was moving to the rhythm of his own spirit. If you lot feel like y'all have to strength something in order to brand it happen, information technology can be exhausting. At that place is a departure between strength and ability. The "Do non pray…" quote is sometimes misinterpreted to exist about physical strength. Across physical strength, there is inner strength, mental strength, and spiritual strength. Faith is a type of strength. Cultivating faith will aid you navigate through life's difficulties much more than physical forcefulness.

Exist present, fully alive, and engaged in your whole life. Develop a strong sense of self, develop your root.

"Wisdom does not consist in trying to wrest the practiced from the evil, but in learning to ride them as a cork adapts itself to the crests and troughs of the waves."

Take Action:

What happens to you when you get thrown by life's difficulties? Can you be more flexible and adaptable? Does existence in the flow and being nowadays to your life give you energy and the strength to go along going? Look at your mindset. How do you want to all-time navigate your life? How can you lot work from difficult to piece of cake? Notice what kind of escape fantasy y'all have and when you accept it. Are you praying for something or someone to save y'all from your current life? Where are you being passive rather than agile? Where are yous forcing things unnaturally? Where are y'all trying to force instead of flow?

If you'd like to share how yous're doing with this action item y'all tin can email us at hello@brucelee.com.

#AAHA

(Awesome Asians and Hapas)

James Wong Howe

This week podcast listener Sobaan nominated James Wong Howe.

James Wong Howe was a Chinese American cinematographer born in 1899 and worked on over 130 films. He was a main at the use of shadow and was 1 of the first to use deep-focus cinematography, in which both foreground and distant planes remain in focus. During the 1930s and 1940s, Howe was ane of the most sought later cinematographers in Hollywood. He was nominated for x Academy Awards and won twice for The Rose Tattoo (1955) and Hud (1963). Howe was judged to exist one of the 10 most influential cinematographers in a survey of the members of the International Cinematographers Guild in the U.South. Often publicized every bit a Chinese cameraman, Howe was prevented from condign a U.S. citizen until the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1943. Prior to WWII, he met his married woman and they married in Paris in 1937. Due to anti-miscegenation laws, the marriage would not be legally recognized in the U.S. until 1949. After WWII, Howe was grey-listed as a communist sympathizer, and he and his wife moved to United mexican states for a time. When he got work once more, he won his first Academy Laurels in 1956 and second in 1963. James Wong Howe died in 1976 at age 76. Howe, you were a creative and social pioneer, and we think y'all're awesome! Thank you Sobaan for the nomination!

#BruceLeeMoment

This week we have a #BruceLeeMoment from listener Daniel:

"How-do-you-do Shannon and Sharon, and everybody at the Bruce Lee podcast, My starting time Bruce Lee moment happened before I was five years erstwhile. I take dealt with a keen amount of loss in my life and Bruce Lee'southward philosophies helped me find solutions to life's road, which is at present smooth and flows like water, sorry I couldn't resist. Equally I've grown older I've reconnected with all of his teachings, and I guess with wisdom, they seem more real to me today than always before, and that speaks volumes.

My most recent Bruce Lee moment was actually on his most contempo birthday. My wife and I went out of boondocks to visit our parents over Thanksgiving, and we came back habitation on Sunday the 27th, I wasn't fifty-fifty aware that information technology was Bruce Lee's birthday.

I previously went out and bought a inflatable Christmas Dragon for the yard, correct after Halloween, in Bruce's honor of form. I put it up as soon equally nosotros got back home, which just happen to exist his altogether, which would come to my attending through your podcast the following day. I only thought the Dragon was perfect and so was the timing, with his work beingness a more than in depth influence on my life, as of the last 2 years.

I know Bruce had a humorous side to him and he'due south helped me to be thankful for my problems, considering I know there's people out there, that don't even have any.

I have many Bruce Lee Moments since I am now 50, but this one is special because I feel his Spirit so strong in my heart. Dearest Y'all All, My Friends Daniel"

Share your #AAHA and #BruceLeeMoment recommendations with us via social media @BruceLee or e-mail us at hullo@brucelee.com.

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