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.

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.

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.

A dojo [pracice hall] is a miniature cosmos where we make contact with ourselves - our fears, anxieties, reactions, and habits. It is an arena of confined conflict where we confront an opponent who is not an opponent but rather a partner engaged in helping us understand ourselves more fully.

To generate great power you must first totally relax and gather your strength, and then concentrate your mind and all your strength on hitting your target.

What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well.

One of the first lessons one learns is that the mind is a powerful factor in everything you do, including those exercises that seem to require a maximum of physical strength.