Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort.

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.

When one eye is fixed upon your destination, there is only one eye left with which to find the Way.

Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort.

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.

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.