Karlfried Graf Durckheim Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Karlfried Graf Durckheim
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. — Karlfried Graf Durckheim
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. — Karlfried Graf Durckheim
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
Belief is not truly belief while doubt can still touch it. — Karlfried Graf Durckheim
For the true student, everything that happens in daily life is a test. — Karlfried Graf Durckheim
The man, who, being really on the Way, falls upon hard times in the world will not, as a consequence, turn to that friend who offers him refuge and comfort and encourages his old self to survive. Rather, he will seek out someone who will faithfully and inexorably help him to risk himself, so that he may endure the suffering and pass courageously through it. Only to the extent that man exposes himself over and over again to annihilation, can that which is indestructible arise within him. In this lies the dignity of daring. — Karlfried Graf Durckheim