I was in the kyudojo recently and noticed these words in the entryway. While I don’t know who to attribute the quote to (hopefully I will be able to edit that in later), I think it is worthy of sharing and reminding oneself of as many times as needed along the path.
“Kyudo is a beautiful road. However, sometimes we forget to just walk, and kyudo becomes something static, achieves a degree of entity and pretends to have an ending in itself. Any road, whatever fun the travel can be, leads to something different from the road itself, that should be axiomatic.”
Kyudo ...the road less traveled 