You were the one who chose the target and you are responsible for it.
What is a master? I would say that he is not someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to do his best to discover a knowledge he already has in his soul.
We should never judge people without first learning to hear and to respect them.
Use your bad moments to discover what makes you tremble. Use your good moments to find your road to inner peace. But do not stop either out of fear or out of joy: the way of the bow has no end.
The gesture is the incarnation of the verb; that is, an action is a thought made manifest.
Serenity comes from the heart. Although the heart is often tormented by thoughts of insecurity, it knows that – through correct posture – it will be able to do its best.
People always judge others by taking as a model their own limitations, and other people’s opinions are often full of prejudice and fear.
If you never take a risk, you will never know what changes you need to make.
Elegance is achieved when everything superfluous has been discarded.
Each arrow leaves a memory in your heart, and it is the sum of those memories that will make you shoot better and better.
Each arrow flies differently. You can shoot a thousand arrows and each one will follow a different trajectory: that is the way of the bow.
Continue in the way of the bow, for it is a whole life’s journey, but remember that a good, accurate shot is very different from one made with peace in your soul.
