Yo, today's QOD is your inner thoughts and outer expressions cannot contradict each other. Here we go

Welcome back to the quote of the day show I'm your host Sean Crox and a Sean Crox and

.com. We've got Shannon Lee who is the daughter of Bruce Lee on the show today and she's going

to share with you the personal philosophy of her father. The same philosophy that helped Bruce

Lee to achieve so much and so little time and she's going to share with you also three ways in

which you can use that philosophy in order to bring out your own inner action hero here Shannon.

So when I think about what makes Bruce Lee a hero I think about his own words. So he wrote at one

point in time as a young man a letter to a friend of his and in that he laid down what I'm going to call the recipe for an

action hero. He said in that letter wishing to cultivate yourself first rectify your heart. Wishing to rectify

your heart seek to be sincere in your thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in your thoughts first extend to the utmost

of your knowledge. This lies in the investigation of things. Then discard all thoughts of reward, all

hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self and let your spirit out as it will.

Pretty cool but what does it mean? It's kind of hard to penetrate right? It's kind of hard to take in and apply to

yourself. So I have taken these thoughts and have broken them down into three simple steps so that we all can see how

we might be able to access our own hero. Step one and this is his word that he used as well. Spiritual realization sounds kind of out there.

So I'm going to use another phrase of his which is don't think feel. At the age of 21 so think about that he's 21 years old.

He's a college student. He's trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life. He loves martial arts. He's teaching gongfu lessons to some people.

He wrote a letter again another letter at the age of 21 to a family friend. And in that he said, I feel I have this great creative and

spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than vision. It is all these combined.

My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand. Whether it is the Godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me.

This feeling defies description and no experience with this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith but a lot stronger.

Now what does that mean? That means he can feel something inside himself. He's in touch with his energy. He's in touch with his potential.

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