Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.

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.

Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself.

Once I slow down because I think I have reached my peak, then my skills will go nowhere but down

I'm moving and not moving at all. I'm like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and rocking. It is not, "I am doing this," but rather, an inner realization that "this is happening through me," or "it is doing this for me." The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.