Ashes to Ashes
Remember that you are a part of the universe. To ruin your life or waste it is to ruin a piece of the universe.
- Mitsugi Saotome
Finding Purity in Calm
When the mind is calm, the body can act spontaneously and the action that results is free and easy, whereas the body’s functions are impeded when the mind is working all the time.
- Taisen Deshimaru
Commit Yourself
You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.
- Taisen Deshimaru
Approach like Water
What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immovable.
- Lao-Tzu
Samurai
