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“You have described only too well," replied the Master, "where the difficulty lies...The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You...brace yourself for failure. So long as that is so, you have no choice but to call forth something yourself that ought to happen independently of you, and so long as you call it forth your hand will not open in the right way--like the hand of a child.”

Life Writing Art Zen Archery Porup

Author:Eugen Herrigel

“What are the present governments of Europe, but a scene of iniquity and oppression? What is that of England? Do not its own inhabitants say, It is a market where every man has his price, and where corruption is common traffic, at the expense of a deluded people? No wonder, then, that the French Revolution is traduced.”

America Freedom Tyranny Porup

Book:Rights of Man

Source: Rights of Man

“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 it takes the archer himself by surprise.”

Writing Zen Archery Porup

Book:Zen in the Art of Archery

Source: Zen in the Art of Archery

“The right art," cried the Master, "is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. What stands in your way is that you have a much too willful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen.”

Life Writing Art Zen Archery Porup

Author:Eugen Herrigel

“Never so sure our rapture to create As when it touch'd the brink of all we hate.”

Hate Hatred Satire Rapture Porup United States Of Air

Author:William Hazlitt