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You see, John,…that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring “personal” liberty. Your way is not my way; nor mine yours. So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art “LIVES” where absolute freedom is.5
There is considerable danger in standing too close to the river of another’s thoughts—the faster the current, the easier it is to fall in and be swept away from ourselves. Instead, let us simply enjoy watching Bruce Lee’s thought as it courses through these pages, noting where it bends and turns and where it rages, froths, and bubbles with greatest energy. If we pull back and look at these thoughts from our own vantage, from where we each stand upon life’s bank, we can see the bigger picture—what Lee’s “finger” is pointing at. And it is at this point—where the river of one man’s thoughts meets the sea of human understanding—that we will finally be able to see “all that heavenly glory” that Lee first told us about over a quarter of a century ago, and we can directly experience the awe of being fully conscious, fully human, fully alive, and fully ourselves. For, as Lee wisely observed, it is only in the process of coming to know ourselves that we can come to know anything.