That's the spirit.

Setbacks make us mentally stronger.

Cultivate virtue: a feeling for truth, a love of truth. Truth does not feel good or bad, pleasurable or painful, it simply feels true: something in you knows it is right, despite the difficulties it poses, the questions it asks.

Shy away from difficulty and you'll get nowhere.

summon your whole being into a single mass of doubt

Hone the spirit with discipline.

if you don’t cut off the mind-road, you live a ghost’s life, clinging to weeds and trees

Depression is the end result of head overruling heart.

Why meditate? To calm the emotions and empower the spirit.

the invisible … is so close and immanent that we cannot gain the distance from it that vision or observation would require

Every phenomenon can be experienced in two ways. These two ways are not random, but bound up with the phenomena—they are derived from the nature of the phenomena, from two characteristics of the same: External/Internal.

Legs should hug the Earth rather than project a ramping ego.

Light draws out the sight but blunts the other senses. That's why I prefer night, especially for work.

Fear has become a social responsibility.

polish the good and correct the bad

 

You can't go all out to win. You have to master the technique of detecting winning chances based on the flow of the bout. And the only way to acquire that ability is through sheer devotion to training.