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Bruce often said that it is not what happens during one’s life that makes the difference between people, it is the way one chooses to react to those circumstances that tests the mettle of a life well lived. Tracing the dominant patterns in Bruce’s life illustrates the crucial points of choice, and, perhaps, the guidance of the mysterious power which directed his path.
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.
Bruce said, “To know yourself takes a lifetime.” He did not waste a moment.
it is only in the process of coming to know ourselves that we can come to know anything.
“The Way of Ultimate Reality—the Way or Principle behind all life, or the Way man should order his life to gear in with the Way the universe operates.”
This law illustrates the principles of nonresistance and nonviolence, which were founded on the idea that the branches of a fir tree snap under the weight of the snow, while the simple reeds, weaker but more supple, can overcome it.
