Be Shapeless, Formless, Like Water

You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water
in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle,
it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes
the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my
friend.
~ Bruce Lee

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[GMW #2909]

Yield To Life Solves The Insoluble

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone,

So to yield with life solves the insoluble:
To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.
~ Lao-tzu

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[GMW #3037]

Innumberable Wondrous Features

Mountains and oceans have whole worlds of innumerable wondrous

features. We should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings

that are like this, but even what is right here, even a single drop of water.
~ Dogen Zenji, excerpt from Genjokoan, trans. by Paul Jaffe

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[GMW #3033]