mastery, n.Definitions

Mastery is achieved after struggle. Everything is hard before it is easy.

Mastery is often taken for egotism.

Mastery is proven only in limitation, and law alone can give us freedom.

Mastery is revealed in limitation and great things are achieved by those who are self-confined.

Mastery is gained in crisis — Skilful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Mastery is when a goal need not even be aimed at while engaged in a task. In skilled activity, planning is not necessary as long as everything is going in its customary way. One simply responds to the solcitations of the situation.

Mastery is the process whereby, after enough practice, tools disappear. Then the artist disappears. Finally, all that's left is the artist's ego.