To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

It is imperative to master the principles of the art of war and learn to be unmoved in mind even in the heat of the battle.

As if with the nut and flower, the nut has become less than the flower... both those teaching and those learning are concerned with colouring and showing off their technique, trying to hasten the bloom of the flower.

The Way of the warrior does not include other ways, such as Confucianism, Buddhism, certain traditions, artistic accomplishments, and dancing. But even though these are not part of the Way, if you know the Way broadly, you will see it in everything.

When you attack the enemy, your spirit must go to the extent of pulling the stakes out of a wall and using them as spears and halberds.

Fixation is the way to death. Fluidity is the way to life.