Do not let your spirit be influenced by your body, or your body be influenced by your spirit. Be neither insufficiently spirited or over spirited. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

In time, all things work to your advantage when you pursue them with an open heart.

Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.

The path that leads to truth is littered with the bodies of the ignorant.

As the innocent infant relies upon the mother for sustenance, so the innocent wanderer, following his native compassion and bliss, relies upon the natural intelligence of life to sustain him. There are various Ways. There is the Way of salvation by the law of Buddha, the Way of Confucius governing the Way of learning, the Way of healing as a doctor, as a poet teaching the Way of Waka, tea, archery, and many arts and skills. Each man practices as he feels inclined.

In contests of strategy it is bad to be led about by the enemy. You must always be able to lead the enemy about.

When your spirit is not in the least clouded, when the clouds of bewilderment clear away, there is the true void.