"Your arrows do not carry, " observed the master,"
because they do not reach far enough spiritually,"
-from Zen in the Art of Archery,
by Eugene Herrigel
About the Attitude of the Career Warrior:
"The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man sees everything as a blessing or a curse."
-don Juan Matus, from Tales of Power, by Carlos Castaneda
"If you have ever stood with awe and reverence, as you entered, for the first time, a "holy place" for you, then the feeling you experienced in that moment is the seed that can later blossom into your
becoming a student in an occult, esoteric school."
-from How to Know Higher Worlds, by Rudolph Steiner
"Zen is not some excitement, but concentration on our everyday
routine."
-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind
About finding and travelling our Warrior’s Path
"Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart
to give yourself to it."
-Buddha
"I knew that to do this I had to achieve something much more
difficult than anything before. I had to bring my emotions – fear, hope,
and greed – under complete control."
-from, How I made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market, by Nicolas Darvas
"To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming,
is the only end of life."
-Robert Louis Stevenson
"Self knowledge and self improvement are very difficult for most
people. It usually needs great courage and long struggle."
-Abraham Maslow
One does these things because one has a
Certain nature. One cannot get away from fate.
If a person does not fulfill his nature, he
Will lead a frustrated life and be unhappy.
If it involves him in fear he will just have to put up with it.
-Sir Francis Chichester, 1967, first man to sail solo around the world,
upon completing his historic trip
