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"The real juice of life, whether it be sweet or bitter, is to be found not nearly so much in the products of our efforts as in the process of living itself, in how it feels to be alive."
"Even without comparing ourselves to the world's greatest, we set such high standards for ourselves that neither we nor anyone else could ever meet them-and nothing is more destructive to creativity than this. We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection. It's about a process, a journey. The master is the one who stays on the path day after day, year after year. The master is the one who is willing to try, and fail, and try again, for as long as he or she lives."
"How do you best move toward mastery? To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice itself."
"It's easy to get on the path of mastery. The real challenge lies in staying on it."
"The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes."
"Mastery is the art of setting your foot on the path."
"Keep practicing, even when you seem to be getting nowhere."
"How to begin the journey? You need only to take the first step. When? There is always now."
"The more you move in rhythm with someone, the closer you become with that person."
"If you intend to take the journey of mastery, the best thing you can do is to arrange for first-rate instruction."
"Not to dream more boldly may turn out to be, in view of present realities, simply irresponsible."
"At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path."
"Mastery is a journey, and that the master must have the courage to risk failure."
"Of what is the body made? It is made of emptiness and rhythm. At the ultimate heart of the body, at the heart of the world, there is no solidity. Once again, there is only the dance."
"Practice is the path of mastery."
"Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself."
"Education is... doing anything that changes you."
"Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of."
"What if you're practicing wrong? Then you get very good at doing something wrong."
"To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life."