The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.

Aiki is not a technique to fight with or defeat an enemy. It is the way to reconcile the world and make human beings one family.

You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment.

Those who are enlightened never stop forging themselves.

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

True budo is a work of love. It is a work of giving life to all beings, and not killing or struggling with each other. Love is the guardian deity of everything. Nothing can exist without it. Aikido is the realization of love.

Around 2am as I was performing misogi, I suddenly forgot all the martial techniques I had ever learned. The techniques of my teachers appeared completely new. Now they were vehicles for the cultivation of life, knowledge, and virtue, not devices to throw people with.