"The shot will go smoothly only when it……" — Eugen Herrigel
"The shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise."
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Eugen Herrigel
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15 Quotes by Eugen Herrigel
Eugen Herrigel has 15 quotes on this site.
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Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to…
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Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make…
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Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the…
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The man, the art, the work--it is all one.
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This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at…
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In the case of archery, the hitter and the hit are no longer two opposing objects, but are one reality.
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This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And…
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By letting go of yourself, leaving yourself and everything yours behind so decisively that nothing more is left of you…
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The hand that guides the brush has already caught and executed what floated before the mind at the same moment…
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I must only warn you of one thing. You have become a different person in the course of these years.…
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The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the…
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Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret…
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A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know…
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If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must…
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In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the…
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They tell us sometimes that if we had only kept quiet, all these desirable things would have come about of…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape…
— Gautama Buddha
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As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the…
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Although extraordinary valor was displayed by the entire corps of Spartans and Thespians, yet bravest of all was declared the…
— Herodotus
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It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark,…
— Aristotle
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Knights are cavalry, bishops are archers, rooks are cannons and queens are wizards.
— Unknown Author
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Bowmen bend their bows when they wish to shoot: unbrace them when the shooting is over. Were they kept always…
— Herodotus
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I must only warn you of one thing. You have become a different person in the course of these years.…
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