What comes after victory? Why do people value victory so much? What is 'glory'? What kind of victory is 'glorious'?

Love is like a friendship caught on fire.

Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice - continuous effort.

Seek freedom from the conformity of styles

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.

What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds 'body feel' and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.

Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.