Only after several years of training did I come to realize that the deepest purpose of the martial arts is to serve as a vehicle for personal spiritual development.
What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well.
Anger doesn't demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.
Only by constantly exposing myself to someone better than I have I been able to improve.
When one eye is fixed upon your destination, there is only one eye left with which to find the Way.
Those who are patient in the trivial things in life and control themselves will one day have the same mastery in great and important things.