"The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that"

And this is the very truth sweety... ;)
Mateusz Peaceful - 14 years, 7 days ago

"I though I taught you...Swords are weapons. The way of swords is the way to kill. However you try to dress it up in phony righteousness, killing is your truth"

~Hiko Seijûrô
Mateusz Peaceful - 14 years, 8 days ago

The blade I swing
Is black as night
Black as my soulless heart
It bears the burden
Of many lives
But I don't feel remorse

I lent my sword
To anyone
Willing to pay the price
No regrets for
What I've done
A mercenary's life

But there i was
On battleground
Until I felt the jaws of death
Cut into my flesh
Defending old and weak
But I did not retreat

Now, here I lie
In my own blood
And strangers cry for me
I'm prepared to meet the gods
I wish they'd let me be

I don't deserve
Their sympathy
I know who I am
My soul is death and misery
I am an evil man

I rest in my blood
Soon I will face the gods
Strangers cry for me
I wish they'd let me be

Show no sympathy
Shed no tears for me
I know who I am
I am an evil man

I know who I am
I am an evil man
Mateusz Peaceful - 14 years, 24 days ago

BALANCE

Ok, time to quote something directly from my mind :D

As every martial arts lover I was wandering what helps more during and before performing a fight- the equanimity or the totally rage of anger.
The unstoppable anger can make us immune for a pain, it can put our muscles at the full speed and strenght and also can discourage the opponent form procceding the struggle.
For that very moment (when we feel the presence of someone, that stands between us and our goal) we are becoming almost invincible machines, which doesn't care about itself. This hatered machine have only one aim- victory. Unfortunately machines are blind thats why even the determination or bright and clear target cannot make them see again... So if we cannot see, we are usually tripping...
And when the darkness swallows the blind man, the peaceful seer comes to the scene. The calm of mind allows us using logic and estimating our current situation. "I will hurt if I do that"... "Gap in the defense, I can attack"... "I must avoid those hits"...
In other words, equanimity give us a chance to use a full power of our skills and techniques. Many times we saw when calm-one beated angry-likes, with simplicity and the economy of the movements.

Almost everything tells us to stay calm then... but there is a third element, that supports all anger-like competitors... it is unpredictability. Strenght itself won't win with technique, but to use a technique you must do a certain actions and those actions needs a special circumstances in which they can be used...
We are angry. The rage starts. The blood is pumped into the muscles and we cannot control some of our actings... we are unpredictable even to ourselves... Calm-one want to use technique: "Piece of cake!"- she/he thinks. But there is no way to use it! "Opponent acting very strange... It is insane! What is her/his purpose of doing that?!"

The aim is clear- the win of course.

But what if we will mix two of those elements- the calm of mind and the rage of fury? What if we can keep balance in those? Estimate on cold, attack like a flame... See the gap and hit it with the full unpredictible force!

Yeah, in m opinion it is the way to success...the balance. The balance is a key to everything!

Mateusz Peaceful - 14 years, 3 months, 26 days ago

Devil May Cry3 OST: Taste of the blood

The flinch in your eye
Calls you a bluff
Feel free to drown when you have enough

Useless cause is breaking your back
Your life will end when you attack
Make your move, Make your stance
Make the win
Heh, like you can.

See the war
See me rule
See the mirror
You'll see a fool

To take me out you must fight like a man, To take me out you must fight like a man
You've yet to prove that you can, You've yet to prove that you can!
So you might be compared to something, So you might be compared to something
That is something is nothing, that is something is nothing

Time to figure
Time to sin
Your time is done
When you begin

Live for suffer
Live for revenge
Now your life comes to an end

Taste the blood, taste your fate
Swallow your pride with your hate

Your last breath, Your last stance
The last of all with your command

Knees in the blood with your crying pleas
Wait in your sorrow, bathe in the fear
Clear the mind of the righteousness of it
Witness the moment of failure prosper!!

Mateusz Peaceful - 14 years, 4 months, 2 days ago