To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow.

The highest art is no art. The best form is no form.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create

When you freely express, you are the total style.

Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.

The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.