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CageSage

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Currently, we are roofless in one section of our house, and had to move a lot of stuff from one place to another. Opportunity to toss some of the dross collected and never touched.

Found: a box with all my training notes from a Master (martial arts), which read:

Excellence in technique does not make a master, however, mastery is not reached without excellence in technique.

I think I may add that to the wall of aphorisms I plaster next to the computer. It applies to martial arts, to writing, to singing/music/dance, art, everything. Just knowing how to do something, and do it well, isn't enough unless the passion and intensity accompany it.

It was worth the digging.
 

Barbara

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Found: a box with all my training notes from a Master (martial arts), which read:

Excellence in technique does not make a master, however, mastery is not reached without excellence in technique.
One of my Kung Fu masters was also full of wise quotes; something along the lines of:

Once you've mastered the technique, you can free yourself from its constraints and explore the truth within.

At first, I thought he was the world's biggest clever clogs, then I started to see the light ...
 

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