Aikido is not an art to fight with enemies and defeat them. It is a way to lead all human beings to live in harmony with each other as though everyone were one family. The secret of aikido is to make yourself become one with the universe and to go along with its natural movements. One who has attained this secret holds the universe in him/herself and can say, 'I am the universe.'

Each person is the universe from a particular perspective.

Cast off limiting thoughts and return to true emptiness. Stand in the midst of the great void. This is the secret of the Way of a Warrior.

If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth.

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

Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

Seeing me before him, / The adversary attacks, / But by that time / I am already standing / Safely behind him.