Keep your mind wide and straight. Not tight, not slack.
Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings, Water (The Mind in Strategy)
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Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings, Water (The Mind in Strategy)
"Keep your mind wide and straight. Not tight, not slack." Miyamoto Musashi said it in The Book of Five Rings, Water (The Mind in Strategy). Translated from the original Japanese by Spartan Surfers.
"心を廣く直にして、きつくひつはらず、少もたるまず"Original Japanese, The Book of Five Rings, Water (The Mind in Strategy). Japanese: Miyamoto Musashi (Kinkodo, 1909), NDL digital text.
Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584–1645). Undefeated swordsman who wrote The Book of Five Rings in a cave a few weeks before he died.
Keep your mind wide and straight. Not tight, not slack.
Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings, Water (The Mind in Strategy)
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