“Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”

Sometimes this quote is misunderstood—out of context it seems like Bruce is encouraging you to toughen up because winter is coming. But these words are not about praying for the strength to fight against a hard life. Within the context of Bruce Lee’s philosophy of harmony, the “strength” Bruce is referring to is one of calm and flow. An easy life is not something you get because you pray for it or fight for it, the ease comes when you practice self-actualization and achieve peace of mind.

If you only look at Bruce Lee as the ripped warrior, it is easy to misinterpret this quote to be about getting tough and developing physical strength to defend against a difficult life. When you understand who Bruce Lee was as a total human being, you know he could not have had the negative mentality that life was a constant struggle to be defended against. Bruce Lee was about keeping the mind on the positive and being in the flow.

Endurance is about having the stamina to experience your whole life. It’s about inviting all of the experiences, including the challenges and catastrophes, because every experience has a lesson in it.

“The good life is a process, it’s not a state of being. The good life constituted a direction selected by the total organism when there is freedom to move in any direction.”

The first step in the good life process is freeing your mind from the limiting thoughts that are preventing you from engaging fully in life. 

“The cultivation of the spirit is elusive and difficult and the tendency toward it is rarely spontaneous.”

You have to work at this, the cultivation of your spirit and root does not happen automatically. You cannot quit when it gets tough.

“The true stillness is the stillness in movement.”

If you develop your inner being and you have a strong root from which you function, then your life can be moving around you in a spiral of ups and down, but you at the root can maintain your stillness in the middle of it. 

“Wisdom does not consist in trying to wrest the good 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?
Notice what kind of escape fantasy you have and when you have it. What are you praying for to take you out of your current life?
Where are you trying to force instead of flow?

#AAHA
James Wong Howe was a Chinese American cinematographer born in 1899 and worked on over 130 films. In the 1930s and 1940s, Howe was one of the most sought after cinematographers in Hollywood. He was nominated for 10 Academy Awards and won twice for The Rose Tattoo (1955) and Hud (1963). Howe was prevented from becoming a U.S. citizen until the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1943. Prior to WWII, he met his wife 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. James Wong Howe died in 1976 at age 76. Howe, you were a creative and social pioneer, and we think you’re awesome!

#BruceLeeMoment

A moment from Daniel:

“My wife and I went out of town to visit our parents over Thanksgiving, and we came back home on Sunday the 27th, I wasn't even aware that it was Bruce Lee's birthday. 
I previously went out and bought a inflatable Christmas Dragon for the yard, right after Halloween, in Bruce's honor of course. I put it up as soon as we got back home, which just happen to be his birthday, which would come to my attention through your podcast the following day. I just thought the Dragon was perfect and so was the timing, with his work being a more in depth influence on my life, as of the last 2 years.”

Share your #AAHAs, #BruceLeeMoments, and #TakeAction progress with us at hello@brucelee.com Find the full version of our show notes at BruceLee.com/podcast

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Music not only gives us relief and entertainment. 
It is something more.
You can get to know a human by the music, 
what he listens to.

Paulo Coelho   -  "The Witch of Portobello"



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Bruce Lee’s wisdom for a harmonious life.

Join Bruce Lee's daughter Shannon Lee and culture analyst Sharon Ann Lee for a conversation about the life and philosophy of Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee was a famous martial artist, movie star and cultural icon--but his philosophy has caught fire around the world inspiring millions searching for meaning and consciousness. Each episode will dig deep into Bruce’s philosophy to provide guidance and action on cultivating your truest self. 

“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless like water. Now you put water into 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. Be water, my friend.”

First Slovakian DJ to have a worldwide track premiere by Hernan Cattaneo (6th best DJ in the world at one point) in his Resident podcast Episode 158 aired May 17th 2014, also aired on our national radio station Radio_FM in 4 ELEMENTS_FM radio show presented by Michal Breeth as part of Slovakian premiere, Hernan emphasized to Michal that he can't premiere my track before he premieres it on his show, little background moment :D
you can find the premiere of the track in the 4 ELEMENTS_FM show from 16th of May 2014 at around 22nd minute on the link below:

https://www.mixcloud.com/radiofm/4-elements_fm-1652014/


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Music wizard/selector/DJ since 2003, born in 1990 in the heart of Europe
ultimate pleasure seeker @
...Circoloco, Amnesia... thats where i like to be, just right elements, places i feel good, but i love to be on the outside on the fresh air too, i wish sun never comes up but same time i love to welcome it, i wish the cycle never stops. Rave Up!

House Music United!
Peace - Love - Unity.
Matthew
(here on the profile you gonna find also some tracks production just to show you that i'm not a producer, i can put together something, but i'm a dj, and that's my craft, but for you to have an idea i have put some tracks over too, sometimes i make music for myself, with no intension of the release or whatever, just to play with sounds, i hope you get the idea)
Enjoy my mixes :)

My life as a DJ started when i was 13 years old, back in 2003 before social media and long before it was normal for young kids to do so :D

https://linktr.ee/matthewsandsdj
Thank you Hernan, thank you Michal Breeth, thank you Antena DJ for helping to push my track out to the world, thank you my mum for trusting me! Best times of my life!
https://podcast.hernancattaneo.com/e/resident-episode-158-may-17-2014/

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Deep  Grounding Connection to Pachamamita through Nature Art Love  Meditation music

The " red house " of :
Welsh Artist Anthony Richards
Here I am on Soundcloud 9
perched in Ammanford.
A small post industrial town in South Wales
the undisputed home of the underground
there used to be more coal mines here
than you could shake a stick at, before
they were all shut down.
Truly well deeply deeper underground.
A Massive thank you to all the music makers,
 music lovers, the whole world over.
Loving all of your divine music.
At the house of dancing paintbrushes.
If I am not here, then I might well
also be here, when I am not here....
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Or I might also be here of course. If I am neither here nor there...
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Love and Big Cwtches ! From, the house of dancing brushes, small town South Wales, the birthplace and home of the " Redhouse Ultra-underground " Movement/Non Movement. Safe Journeys & Happy Adventuring, to all of you most fabulous folks out there, peace, love, and respect to you all. X

No, of course I am not nuts..
But, my dear old passed dad. Often asked of me. With a quizzingly confused, expression upon his face.. " Are you some kind of a bloody loony ? " I never gave his quizzing a definitive answer, it was more fun to keep him guessing.

#69 The Easy Life

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