"If the Angel designs to come it will be because you have convinced her, not by tears, but by your humble resolve to be always beginning: to be a beginner."--Rilke

If we consider the angel to be the martial forms or concepts you wish to understand, you will never acquire them by demanding to know, becoming frustrated with your progress, or trying to figure it all out at once. By humbly accepting your understanding exactly as it is at this moment, you open yourself up to new insights.

"The brain literally empties, scatters or rearranges itself when it's preparing to make a huge, broad-spectrum leap so be patient with the cyclic frustrations. It may feel like you're starting all over again, but the regular plateaus and setbacks you encounter in your training are the precursors of growth. These cycles of change and periods of stagnation spiral you around to the beginning-the beginning of something else that is the same."--Jack Livingston

It so often happens that just when you feel like you're not making any more progress, or even regressing, that's when you're about to reach a new level of understanding or expertese. If you allow yourself to begin again and again, you will always be making progress.