Tea ceremony is a way of worshipping the beautiful and the simple. All one's efforts are concentrated on trying to achieve perfection through the imperfect gestures of daily life. Its beauty consists in the respect with which it is performed. If a mere cup of tea can bring us closer to God, we should watch out for all the other dozens of opportunities that each ordinary day offers us.

God exists wherever He is allowed to enter.

Forgive your enemy, but do not mistake him for a friend.

We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

When the Warrior takes on a commitment, he keeps his word.

If you have a dream , don't waste your energies explaining why.

No one can posses an afternoon of rain beating against the window, or the serenity of a sleeping child, or the magical moment when the waves break on the rocks. No one can posses the beautiful things of this Earth, but we can know them and love them. It is through such moments that God reveals himself to mankind.