Weapon or nothing?

A quote: How sure it is that a weapon can lock a person into a predictable pattern of behavior.

How does this apply to me? I believe that as long as you think of a sword or a staff or any type of fighting implement as just a weapon then there is a tendency to to separate and compartmentalize each weapon and its movements. Such thinking can lead one to discard techniques, ideas and even advice as not pertinent or applicable. This is dangerous as the above quote suggests. If my thinking is flowing solely along the lines of a sword then I am limited by my perception of what only a sword is capable of doing. An opponent has just to understand that and know what sword I am using to see the patterns I could engage in. So what is a sword if it is not a weapon? The moment it touches your hand it becomes nothing and it is only that you have gained a few pounds of weight and must adjust your balance. Once it ceases to be a weapon you have freed yourself from movement only a sword can perform. Now you are able to use your brain-create, anticipate, flow, reject, all done using yourself- something we are all more familiar with using. An opponent with this kind of understanding would be dangerous indeed. I think one can recognize such by how one moves while holding a weapon. He moves as if he has forgotten what he holds and merely adjusts. When fighting he doesn`t seek to cut or block but it is as if the sword appeared at such a position. Again I must ask myself how much of this concept applies to other pursuits. Applied as wide as I can imagine I could say that every individual thing in the world that I separate with its own characteristics is just a weapon, something I am attempting to exert control over.