"Where should the swordsman fix his mind nowhere..." - Takuan Soho

🌙 Solitude

“Where should the swordsman fix his mind nowhere let the body and limbs work themselves out according to a discipline they have undergone”

Fixing the mind nowhere through solitary discipline enables mastery.

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“The mind should be nowhere in particular let it fill the whole body”

— Takuan Soho

“The mind must always be in the state of flowing for when it stops anywhere that means the flow is interrupted”

— Takuan Soho

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“It's okay to go alone. Just don't stop.”

— Anonymous

“All of humanitys problems stem from mans inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.”

— Louis Aragon

“True happiness arises from the enjoyment of one's self.”

— Joseph Addison

“True happiness arises from the enjoyment of one's self, and from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.”

— Joseph Addison

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore.”

— Lord Byron

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“Friendship needs no words it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness”

— Dag Hammarskjold