“Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out! The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise. It must be as if the bowstring suddenly cut through the thumb that held it. You mustn't open the right hand on purpose.”
Eugen Herrigel (March 20, 1884 - 1955) was a renowned German author and biographer known for his deep exploration of Eastern philosophy and Japanese culture. more
“Probems must be resolved at the level beneath the one at which they occur.”
“Conclusions are ignorance arrested on the path to less ignorance.”
“Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.”
“Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.”
“The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.”