Summary of the book of "Way of the Peaceful Warrior"

·         Understanding is one dimensional. It is the comprehension of the intellect. It leads to knowledge, which you have. Realization, on the other hand, is three dimensional. It is the simultaneous comprehension of the 'whole-body'---the head, heart, and physical instincts. It comes only from clear experience.

了解是智力单一面向的理解，它带来知识；

领悟则是头脑、心灵和本能三个面向同时都能理解。

只有直接的经验才能让人有所领悟。

·         You must appreciate that a secret's value is not in what you know, but what you do with what you know.

秘密的价值不在于你所知道的事，而在于你所做的事。

·         "Use whatever knowledge you have but see its limitations. Knowledge alone does not suffice; it has no heart. No amount of knowledge will nourish or sustain your spirit; it can never bring you ultimate happiness or peace. Life requires more than knowledge; it requires intense feeling and constant energy. Life demands right action if knowledge is to come alive.

尽量使用你拥有的任何知识，可是要看出它们的限制。

光有知识还不够，知识没有心。

再多的知识也不能滋养或支掌你的心灵，它永远也无法带给你终极的幸福或平静。

生命所需要的不仅是知识而已，还得有热烈的感情感觉和源源不绝持续不断的能量。

生命必须采取正确的行动，才能让知识活过来。

·         Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter.

唯上智与下愚不移。

·         The word disillusion is literally a 'freeing from illusion'.

幻灭的意思是“脱离幻想”。

·         If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold onto it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change, free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.

你如果得不到想要的东西，就会受苦；

得到不想要的东西，也会受苦；

就连得到你正好想要的东西，仍然会受苦，因为你无法永远拥有它。

你的心智就是你的困境。它想要免于改变，免于痛苦，免于生与死的必然性。然而，改变是一项法则，在怎么假装，都不能改变这个事实。

·         Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of your mind's attachments and just go for the ride freely, no matter what happens.

生命并不是苦难，你会因它而 苦，而非因它而乐，除非你挣脱内心的执念，不论发生什么事，只管自由自在、卸风前行。

·         'Mind' is an illusory outgrowth of basic cerebral processes. It is like a tumor. It comprises all the random, uncontrolled thoughts that bubble into awareness from the subconscious.

“心智”是在脑部浮荡的虚幻投影，包含了所有随机出现、未加控制的思绪，这些思绪从潜意识潺潺进知觉状态当中。

·         Consciousness is not mind; awareness is not mind; attention is not mind.

意识并非心智，知觉并非心智，专注力并非心智。

·         Mind is an obstruction, an aggravation. It is a kind of evolutionary mistake in the human being, a primal weakness in the human experiment.

心智是障碍，是使情况恶化的事物，是人类的一种进化的错误，是在做造人实验时产生原始弱点。

·         Anger is stronger than fear, stronger than sorrow.

怒气比恐惧更有力，比哀伤更有力。

Peaceful Warrior

The story is about a young gymnast Dan Millman played by Scott Mechlowicz, and his struggle to make sense of his life in which he is successful but still unfulfilled. By chance he meets his "Yoda"/Shaolin priest/Boss Paul who helps him "git his haid straight" after which he goes on to be comfortable with his athletic prowess albeit not exactly Olympic caliber. There is a lot of jumping around scene wise during which we don't know what is dream (part of getting his head straight) or reality showing his maturing personality. He suffers a debilitating physical injury which forces him to work very hard to get back where he was ability wise earlier, but much wiser for successfully negotiating his transformation to wise old Grasshopper. 

Inspirational Quotes from this movie:

• I am a peaceful warrior because the war exists within me! The battles we fight are on the inside. 
• Work hard and get results!
• Don't waste energy, keep your mouth shut.
• Sorry do not mean anything.
• Knowledge is not the same as wisdom. Wisdom is doing it.
• What has happy got to do with anything? Everything!
• You can live a whole lifetime without ever being awake.
• Everyone tells you what to do and what's good for you. They do not want you find your answers. They want you to believe theirs.
• Stop gathering information from the outside yourself and start gathering it from the inside. People are afraid of what is inside and that is the only place they are ever gonna find what they need.
• Why can't you sleep?  It is because, maybe, late at night, when all the noise dies down and you are lying there in bed and there is nobody around but you, then, maybe you get a little scared. Scare because suddenly everything feel so empty.
• A real warrior uses his mind and his body in ways that most people would never have the courage to.
• People are not their thoughts. They think they are and it brings them all kinds of sadness.
• The mind is just a reflex organ. It reacts to everything. Fills your head with millions of random thoughts a day. None of those thoughts reveal anymore about YOU, than a freckle does at the end of nose.
• Developing the wisdom to apply the right leverage in the right place, at the right time.
• Take out the trash. Learning to throw out everything you do not need in your mind. The trash is anything that is keeping you from the only thing that matters, this moment, here and now.When you truly are in the here and now, you will amazed what you can do and how well you can do it.
• Devoted 100% to the experience you were having.
• Sometimes you have to lose your mind before you come to your senses.
• Learn to meditate in every action.
• Letting go of attachments like your pride. Giving up your addictions.
• Emotions are natural like the passing weather.
• Everything has a purpose. It is up to you to find it. Find your answers from within. 
• The people who are hardest to love are usually the ones who need it most.
• We are better than everyone who does not know what we know or live the way we do? There is no "better". You will never be better. Same way you will never be less than anybody else. The habit is the problem.
• Listen to your own intuition.
• Every action has its price and its pleasure. Recognizing both sides, a warrior becomes realistic and responsible for his actions.
• When you feel fear, use the "sword". Take it up here and cut the mind to ribbons. Slash through all those regrets and fears and anything else that lives in the past or future.
• A warrior does not give up what he loves. He finds the love in what he does.
• A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He is about absolute vulnerability. That is the true courage.
• Life is choice. You can choose to be a victim or anything else you would like to be.
• A warrior acts and a fool reacts.
• There is no starting or stopping. It is only doing!
• Nearly all of humanity shares your predicament. If you do not get what you want, you suffer. And even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you cannot hold onto it forever.
• You do not surrender your dreams. You surrender the one thing you never have and you never will, control. Accept that you do not control what will happen to you.
• Life has 3 rules. Paradox, humor, change.
• Paradox, life is a mystery. Do not waste time trying to figure it out.
• Humor, keep sense of humor especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure.
• Change, know that nothing stays the same.
• It is the journey, not destination. The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.
• Just getting rid of all that bullshit you have up in your head, tells you you might not be enough. Not about anything, but that one moment in time.
• There are no ordinary moments.
• There is no greater purpose than service to others.
• Do you know what is the difference between you and me? You practice something, I practice everything.
• This moment is the only thing that matters.