Everything too fast is not good but everything too slow is also not good. You need balance. That's why I like martial arts: it always tells you how to control your body, your mind, your heart. Balance. Balance can keep the world's peace. I think that's a very good thing.
Interpretation
Finding a middle ground between extremes is essential for harmony.
This quote emphasizes the importance of balance in life, suggesting that both excessive haste and extreme slowness can lead to negative outcomes. Jet Li highlights how martial arts teach individuals to master their physical and mental states, thus promoting harmony within oneself and contributing to broader peace in the world.
In practice
During a motivational speech about discipline and self-control.
What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.
The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.
The emergence of the Atomic Age brought the previously inchoate and 'free-floating' anxiety of many people into sharp focus.
There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.
His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emotions of compassion and mercy are traced to Him; there is more to human deeds than the doers are aware. He identified every act of kindness as an expression of sympathy with Himself. All kindnesses are either done explicitly or implicitly in His name, or they are refused explicitly or implicitly in His name.
My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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