The Real Thing Quotes
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Today’s aikido is so dimensionless. It’s hollow, empty on the inside. People try to reach the highest levels without even paying their dues. That’s why it seems so much like a dance these days. You have to master the very basics solidly, with your body, and then proceed to develop to the higher levels... Now we see nothing but copying or imitation without any grasp of the real thing (The Real Thing Quotes)
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing (The Real Thing Quotes)
We do not retreat from reality, we rediscover it. As long as the story lingers in our mind, the real things are more themselves... By dipping them in myth we see them more clearly (The Real Thing Quotes)