"After passing the age of thirty,
I reflected on the road I had been traveling
and came to the realization that I had won
not because I had attained
the full secrets of swordsmanship, but perhaps
because I has natural ability for this path,
or that it was the order of heaven....
.......After that I tried to attain a deeper understanding, and
as a result of disciplining myself day in and day out,
at about the age of fifty,
I came face to face with the true path of Heiho."
.................--Miyamoto Musashi (Gorin noSho)
