In My Own Process: I

BRUCE LEE:

I don't know what I will be writing but just simply writing whatever wants to be written. If the writing communicates and stirs something within someone, it's beautiful. If not, well, it can't be helped.

To Begin with, the article is not an easy one because it is most difficult to write about oneself, because each of us is such a complexity. It is similar to an eye that can see externally but not internally. Granted, it would be a much easier job if one happens to be the type who can indulge oneself in a manipulative game of an imaginative self. But this bothers me.

I have come to the realization that sooner or later what it really amounts to is the bare fact that even an attempt to really write something about oneself demands, first of all, an honesty toward oneself, to be able to take responsibility to be what we actually are; that is a pure human being.

Well, ever since I was a kid I have possessed within myself this instinctive urge for growth and daily expansion of my potential. It has been quite some time now since I acquired and really understood the DISTINCTION between SELF-ACTUALIZATION and this ILLUSION of SELF-IMAGE ACTUALIZATION. Through my own observations, I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.

The truth is that life is an ever-going process, ever-renewing, and it is just meant to be "lived," but not "lived for." It is something that cannot be squeezed into a self- constructed security patterm a game of rigid control and clever manipulation. Instead, to be what I term a "quality" human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he/she is.

Yet most people are doing just the opposite; they engage in a protective daily routine of security (a kind of thumb-sucking) by seeing themselves into some sort of various self-contructed, secured routine pattern in a rigid game... In this world there are a lot of people who cannot thouch the heart of the matter but talk merely intellectually (not emotionally) about how they would do this and that. [They] talk about it, but yet nothing is either actualized or accomplished. Of Course, we have many others, and we can go into a few. Another type represents the "you should" be this, you SHOULD change that. A case of what should (a crystallized something) versus what is.

-- Bruce Lee

The legacy that Bruce Lee left behind has grown into political diplomacy. This recent statue (November 2005) was placed in Bosnia to promote equality, tolerance, and peace between the Croatians and Serbians, two different ethnic groups who have been fighting since the mid-nineties. They came together to peacefully celebrate this creation of this statue.