The late Bruce Lee deserves much credit for standing by his vision. He questioned dogma, invented himself, and created a new way of seeing martial arts.

In the 1973 film, Enter the Dragon, Lee instructs a young student on how to improve his skill: “Feel, don’t think.” Lee also tells his student about the Buddhist allegory about truth called: fingers pointing at the moon. If you watch the fingers, you can’t see the moon.

Four years later, in the George Lucas film, Star Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi gives Luke Skywalker the same advice. “Trust your feelings.”

What they are both saying is that you can’t go wrong if you listen to your intuition.

Feel, don’t think is also the source of great art.

For more about fingers pointing at the moon, read Character Answers All Questions inside the main site gallery.

"It’s better to be the bottom of the top than the top of the bottom.”

—so said the master

If you think about it, it makes sense. If you’re honest, it opens doors.

Have you had a defining moment in your life? I’m not talking about the moments or occasions designed for you and everyone else.

A moment when you could say, aha! A moment that made all the difference.

A moment that was yours eternally. A moment that you didn’t need anyone else to confirm.

The moment and you existed and that was the sublime.

With that said, Happy Valentine’s Day in the spirit—and that is the heart and art of the matter.

If you would like to read about such a moment in my life, see Divine Fire inside the main site gallery.

If you met Albert Einstein, would you ask him how to do long division or about his Unified Field Theory?

The answers you get, depend upon the questions you ask—and from whom.

Rocket Man

in memoriam: The Challenger Shuttle crew
set their sites high and lived a life worth living.

She packed my bags last night pre-flight
Zero hour nine a.m.
And I’m gonna be high as a kite by then
I miss the earth so much I miss my wife
It’s lonely out in space
On such a timeless flight

And I think it’s gonna be a long long time
Till touch down brings me round again to find
I’m not the man they think I am at home
Oh no no no I’m a rocket man
Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone

Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids
In fact it’s cold as hell
And there’s no one there to raise them if you did
And all this science I don’t understand
It’s just my job five days a week
A rocket man, a rocket man

And I think it’s gonna be a long long time…

Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin
Available on the album Honky Château