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• Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to dawn on…
• The shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise.
• Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a…
• Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on…
• The man, the art, the work--it is all one.
• This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the…
• In the case of archery, the hitter and the hit are no longer two opposing objects, but are one reality.
• This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And it can…
• By letting go of yourself, leaving yourself and everything yours behind so decisively that nothing more is left of you but a…
• The hand that guides the brush has already caught and executed what floated before the mind at the same moment the mind…
• I must only warn you of one thing. You have become a different person in the course of these years. For this…
• The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you…

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