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Bruce was a highly educated man because he never missed an opportunity to let a “fact” or a “situation” teach him more about himself. As a scholar, he was able to turn this intellectual learning inward and make it a tool for self-cultivation. As a philosopher, he was able to apply specific principles of his art to the broader endeavor of living life as a “real” human being.

A truly extraordinary characteristic of Bruce was that he had the ability to communicate his learning process at the same time he was internalizing or living it. Whether he was teaching, acting, writing, or speaking, Bruce was able to reveal his own personal process of self-discovery. As he would have said, in his martial art and through the medium of film he was “simply and honestly expressing himself.” Superficially, this could be called “charisma,” but on a more profound level this ability to bare the soul should be called “artistry.” Just as Michelangelo chipped away at a block of marble to reveal David, so did Bruce peel away the layers of his inner soul to expose his true self to the world.