After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little. It is not like going out in a shower in which you know when you get wet. In a fog, you do not know you are getting wet, but as you keep walking you get wet little by little.
– Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind (1973)
I like how this is not just for Aikido but to take this perspective in everything in life and not be so hard on yourself!
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