“With water as the basis, the spirit becomes like water. Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea.”

The quote "With water as the basis, the spirit becomes like water. Water adopts the shape of its rec…" is famous quote attributed to Miyamoto Musashi (1584–1645), Japanese martial artist, writer, artist.

Go Rin No Sho (1645)
Context: Second is the Water book. With water as the basis, the spirit becomes like water. Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea. … If you master the principles of sword-fencing, when you freely beat one man, you beat any man in the world. The spirit of defeating a man is the same for ten million men. … The principle of strategy is having one thing, to know ten thousand things.

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Japanese martial artist, writer, artist 1584–1645

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