The shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise.

He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation.

In the case of archery, the hitter and the hit are no longer two opposing objects, but are one reality.

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 out of the center of being.

The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You do not wait for fulfilment, but brace yourself for failure.

By letting go of yourself, leaving yourself and everything yours behind so decisively that nothing more is left of you but a purposeless tension .

You must act as if the goal were infinitely far off.

Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.

This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose.

The man, the art, the work--it is all one.

Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing.

Trust to some was placing all your insecurities and beliefs in one single person, and hoping he or she wouldn’t squash them.

The difference between success & failure isn't ability as much as action.

I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.

It's hard to look at things that are too close.

Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.

In order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that you now scarcely know you have.

Sometimes you have to do something you dislike to create something you desire.

You know, if you want to meet a lot of Iraqi leaders, the best places are the hotels in Amman or in London. In general the government here is amazingly unpopular.

By trusting Christ's redemptive work for us, we can enter into what we long for: the happiness found only in God.

I love Mary Poppins - when I was little I was obsessed with it.