Slow and Steady
Learn to understand with your body. Do not engage in a futile effort to learn a great number of techniques, but rather study the techniques one by one and make each one your own.
- Morihei Ueshiba
Confidence in Self
Not to assume it’s impossible because you find it hard. But to recognize that if it’s humanly possible, you can do it too.
- Marcus Aurelius
Tests of Endurance
Nothing that can happen is unusual or unnatural, and there is no sense in complaining. Nature does not make us endure the unendurable.
- Marcus Aurelius
Finding Purity in Calm
When the mind is calm, the body can act spontaneously and the action that results is free and easy, whereas the body’s functions are impeded when the mind is working all the time.
- Taisen Deshimaru
Commit Yourself
You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.
- Taisen Deshimaru
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