A Few Words From...Awa no Kenzo

"I must warn you of one thing.  You have become a different person in the course of these years.  For this is what the art of archery means:  a profound and far-reaching contest of the archer with himself.  Perhaps you have hardly noticed it yet, but you will feel it very strongly when you meet your family and friends again in your own country:  things will no longer harmonize as before.  You will see with other eyes and measure with other measures.  It happened to me too, and it happens to all who are touched by the spirit of this art." - Eugen Herrigel, Zen in the Art of Archery