Knowing is not enough, You must apply
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one
Be like water, my friend.
Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.
Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.