Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Food for Thought

"Be formless, shapeless, like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put water into a teacup, it becomes the teacup. Water can flow, or it can crash. Water is the softest substance on earth, yet it can wear down the hardest substance. Be water, my friend. Be water."
~Bruce Lee
The other day, a friend sent me a clip of Bruce Lee allegedly playing ping pong with a pair of nunchaku. Being a huge Bruce Lee fan, I started rummaging through the other Bruce Lee clips on Utube and found an interview where he said the above. Amazing thoughts.

In this world where everything we've come to rely on has turned upside down, and we don't know from one day to the next what is going to happen, how can we become like water and go with the flow? There have been some pretty large waves of late. (Dare I say a tsunami?) It's frightening because it's change, massive change, and the ground is crumbling underneath our feet. But what are our options? We can't change the channel. We can't cancel our subscription. If we are alive, we are going through it.
It is time for us to become like the nature of water.

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