Cleanse your body and soul, removing malice, selfishness and desire.

The key to good technique is to keep your hands, feet, and hips straight and centered. If you are centered, you can move freely.

Those who have a warped mind, a mind of discord, have been defeated from the beginning.

Nonresistance is one of the principles of aikido. Because there is no resistance, you have won before even starting. People whose minds are evil or who enjoy fighting are defeated without a fight.

PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace enables you to rise above praise or blame, and it frees you from attachment to this and that.

True victory is victory over oneself.

IF YOUR OPPONENT strikes with fire, counter with water, becoming completely fluid and free-flowing. Water, by its nature, never collides with or breaks against anything. On the contrary, it swallows up any attack harmlessly.