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The quote you gave is an excellent one, and it applies very readily to the martial artist. Often we forget that we need to take our journey a step at a time, and that first step (or third, or tenth) is not always what we consider to be fun or interesting, despite the fact that the journey itself may be exactly what we are looking for.
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