From birth to death the truth be known,
when you cry tears
You’re On Your Own.
If you’re attacked when all alone,
the truth remains—
You’re On Your Own.
Fair weather friends have always flown.
When your fame dies,
You’re On Your Own.
So best to seek the sanctum
of the Journey headed Home
from this wasteland of the loveless where
You Are On Your Own.
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
Perfect Masters throughout time,
in all of their addresses,
state that in pursuit of truth
Concentration Coalesces.
If you don’t concentrate, you’ll end up on your rear.
To be able to concentrate for a considerable time
is essential to difficult achievement.
The stages of the Noble Path are: Right View, Right Thought,
Right Speech, Right Behavior, Right Livelihood,
Right Effort, Right Mindfulness and
Right Concentration.
How tall they grow … and rise again! Aidan “Smasher” Ligtvoet hit yet another KIA milestone on 22 December 2025 when he gained his 2nd Dan Brown Belt rating!
Talk about determination! This young man is on an unrelenting march to Black Belt! Ahead for him is 3rd Degree Brown and then Black Belt in which he will gain a privilege that only 65 individuals of the Kiado-Ryu exist—being on The Wall!
Settling of the Mind Ready to Go
Odin is the chief god in Norse mythology. He is associated with wisdom, war, magic, poetry, and death
You would never want to get hit with an Odin fist! Or stabbed with an Odin claw! This is more than “ouch!”
VETERANS DAY is, arguably, the most essential, critical and gracious way to celebrate AMERICAN DEVOTION. For it is that day, every year, when we give thanks to and for those brave souls who have served, fought or died to preserve America, unequivocally the greatest country on the face of the earth. So thank you—Marine Corps, Army, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, Coast Guard and Police Force for all you’ve done and will continue to do! Without you there would be no America.
Perfect practice, perfect makes.
Simple practice makes a habit.
If it’s perfection we desire,
then we must make Perfection habit.
Simple habits, habits make.
The outcome of our loves
becomes extraordinary in the law
that perfect is as perfect does.
When we spend time in forming
those things we want in ‘grooves’,
then we must practice perfectly
for perfect is as perfect moves.
We can’t expect perfection
from results our effort takes,
if we don’t practice perfectly,
for perfect is as perfect makes.