Too much horsing around with unrealistic stances and classic forms and rituals is just too artificial and mechanical, and doesn't really prepare the student for actual combat. A guy could get clobbered while getting into this classical mess. Classical methods like these, which I consider a form of paralysis, only solidify and constrain what was once fluid. Their practitioners are merely blindly rehearsing routines and stunts that will lead nowhere.

Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.

There is no love without friendship. Passion alone does not form relationships of value.

Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.

It's the law of averages: put in more, come out with more.

In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.