To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.

Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.

The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action is and , more importantly, his thinking become mechanical. His responses become automatic, according to set patterns, making him narrow and limited.

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

Understanding comes about through feeling, from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery.