“When I started my studies years ago, I thought of myself as an academic with an interest in the martial arts. Then I met Yamashita. Now I’ve come to the awareness that I’m a martial artist with some advanced academic… — John Donohue Copy Share Image
“To train in the martial arts is like being apprenticed to frustration, to the burn of effort, and the unattainable criteria of perfection. There’s no glamour, no reward beyond the ones you create in your own heart. You struggle along… — John Donohue Copy Share Image
“In the post-modern academic world, truth is often alleged to be relative.” — John Donohue Copy Share Image
“People crave certainty. And control. We spend our lives erecting coping mechanisms, little games we play to preserve the illusion of safety.” — John Donohue Copy Share Image
“Of course, it’s not that I really work there. Dorian, like many other colleges, pays a horde of part-time teachers to do the dirty… — John Donohue Copy Share Image
“I felt a tightness on the skin. A visceral type of cognition that I had experienced before. But this was stronger, more immediate: the… — John Donohue Copy Share Image
“On good days I hope we were formed for a purpose, but there is also a deep throbbing, a grim Celtic warning that life… — John Donohue Copy Share Image
“We began to circle each other, looking for a tsuki, a gap in concentration, that would permit an attack.” — John Donohue Copy Share Image
“When I started my studies years ago, I thought of myself as an academic with an interest in the martial arts. Then I met… — John Donohue Copy Share Image
“I was sandwiched in between the Colonel and Hanrahan. I looked at the driver and nodded at the crowd in black shirts. “This the… — John Donohue Copy Share Image
“The truly wise know that what we really need are those things that permit our true natures to emerge.” — John Donohue Copy Share Image
“The realization of what was happening meant that I had to shift mental gears. There is, after all, fighting. And then there is fighting.… — John Donohue Copy Share Image
“But didn’t you see that last technique?” Baker pressed. “The blindfold?” He sounded incredulous, but the eyes were still watchful. I noticed the subtle… — John Donohue Copy Share Image
“He looked off into the distance with narrowed eyes. Man of action, seeing things no one else does. “Let’s just say we had indications…”… — John Donohue Copy Share Image
