Karlfried Graf Durckheim quotes
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“A thousand secrets are hidden in simply sitting still.”
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“Belief is not truly belief while doubt can still touch it.”
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“For the true student, everything that happens in daily life is a test.”
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“When you are on a journey, and the end keeps getting further and further away, then you realize that the real end is the journey.”
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“Archery, fencing, spear fighting, all of the martial arts, tea ceremony, flower arranging...in all of these, correct breathing, correct balance, and correct stillness help to remake the individual. The basic aim is always the same: by tirelessly practicing a given skill, the student finally sheds the ego with its fears, worldly ambitions, and reliance on objective scrutiny - sheds it so completely that he becomes the instrument of a deeper power, from which mastery falls instinctively, without further effort on his part, like a ripe fruit.”
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“All the masters tell us that the reality of life - which our noisy walking consciousness prevents us from hearing - speaks to us chiefly in silence.”
-- Karlfried Graf Durckheim
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“Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.”
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“Only another twenty thousand or so days of this to go.”
Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.59, Faber & Faber
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“Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.”
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“A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.”
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