Martial Arts Thoughts:

• You realize how much the arts have influenced you when you choose a mattress size based on whether your long weapons fit neatly at the bed-side.
• The more I study empty hand, the less my hands are empty.
• As you acquire more ability to do great harm, you seem to only search for the least harmful ways.
• Kindness no longer also means weakness. It takes great strength to give kindness.
• You keep extra weapons in areas of the house that are most applicable to the particular space on question.
• You watch martial arts movies and think, " That is a great technique, I gotta try that!"
• You can only answer a question on kata by physical illustration.
• And finally: All those Japanese sayings begin to really make sense to you....