“To have reached thirty," said Reginald, "is to have failed in life.”
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“When I reached thirty I looked back on my past.”
Go Rin No Sho (1645), Introduction
Context: When I reached thirty I looked back on my past. The previous victories were not due to my having mastered strategy. Perhaps it was natural ability, or the order of heaven, or that other schools' strategy was inferior. After that I studied morning and evening searching for the principle, and came to realise the Way of strategy when I was fifty.
Since then I have lived without following any particular Way. Thus with the virtue of strategy I practise many arts and abilities — all things with no teacher. To write this book I did not use the law of Buddha or the teachings of Confucius, neither old war chronicles nor books on martial tactics. I take up my brush to explain the true spirit of this Ichi school as it is mirrored in the Way of heaven and Kwannon. The time is the night of the tenth day of the tenth month, at the hour of the tiger.

Buckingham and Ross 1892, p. 651, The Westminster Review Volume 137
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Source: Inner Management: In the Presence of the Master
“There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.”

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