Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Flow in the living moment - We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed.

To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationships to man. He then becomes a slave to the pattern and takes the pattern to be the real thing.

You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.

Learn it all, then forget it all.