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Lee also made extensive notes on Eastern philosophy and (believe it or not) Western psychotherapy (and the two disciplines are not so diverse as one might initially think), among other subjects. Bruce Lee held that “there is no such thing as an effective segment of a totality,” and in keeping with this belief, he held that life itself was the totality, and all aspects of martial art, philosophy, physical fitness, nutritional science, reading, talking, teaching, learning, and so on, were simply facets that served to make up this totality. Further, from this viewpoint, Lee concluded that art was a bridge to higher learning; that is, the higher up the ladder of martial art mastery one climbed, the clearer the view became that art was simply a metaphor for life itself and that, as Blake once said, it was indeed possible to “see the world in a grain of sand,” and for one who had truly mastered a martial art to be availed of a new and wonderful insight into the human condition. There were and are no opposites, only interconnected facets of the existence of which all of us are a part.