“The right art," cried the Master, "is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
“You have described only too well," replied the Master, "where the difficulty lies...The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You...brace yourself for failure. So long as that is so,… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And it can remain present… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
You can learn from an ordinary bamboo leaf what ought to happen. It bends lower and lower under the weight of snow. Suddenly the… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
“Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out!" he exclaimed. "The shot will only go smoothly when… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
I must only warn you of one thing. You have become a different person in the course of these years. For this is what… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation. — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to dawn on him ....… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
“And what impels him to repeat this process at every single lesson, and, with the same remorseless insistence, to make his pupils copy it… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
The spider dances her web without knowing there are flies that will get caught in it. The fly, dancing nonchalantly on a sunbeam gets… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
In the case of archery, the hitter and the hit are no longer two opposing objects, but are one reality. — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
