If your mind stops at your opponent’s sword, you lose your freedom to act.

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  The mind of a master does not stop on any one thing, even for an instant.

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  If you fix your eye on a single leaf, you will not see all the others.

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  Act without letting your mind be captured by thinking about every move.

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  Do not let the mind stop in any one place.

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  Imagined dangers are the deepest, and imagined enemies are the most bloodthirsty.

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  There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

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