Katherine

“He who has a hundred miles to walk should reckon ninety as half the journey,” he replied, quoting the proverb.”
― Eugen Herrigel, Zen in the Art of Archery

“You only feel it because you haven’t really let go of yourself. It is all so simple. You can learn from an ordinary bamboo leaf what ought to happen. It bends lower and lower under the weight of snow. Suddenly the snow slips to the ground without the leaf having stirred. Stay like that at the point of highest tension until the shot falls from you. So, indeed, it is: when the tension is fulfilled, the shot must fall, it must fall from the archer like snow from a bamboo leaf, before he even thinks it.”
― Eugen Herrigel, Zen in the Art of Archery

“Put the thought of hitting right out of your mind! You can be a Master even if every shot does not hit. The hits on the target is only an outward proof and confirmation of your purposelessness at its highest, of your egolessness, your self-abandonment, or whatever you like to call this state. There are different grades of mastery, and only when you have made the last grade will you be sure of not missing the goal.”
― Eugen Herrigel, Zen in the Art of Archery

“You had to suffer shipwreck through your own efforts before you were ready to seize the lifebelt he threw you.”
― Eugen Herrigel, Zen in the Art of Archery