“The hand that stretches the bow must open like a child's hand opens. What sometimes hinders the precision of the shot is the archer's over-active will. He thinks: "What I fail to do will not be done", and that's not… — 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
