You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.
Taisen DeshimaruYou cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order.
Taisen DeshimaruTrain the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good, it reflects a distorted vision of life. The root of the martial arts is not there.
Taisen DeshimaruNobody today is normal, everybody is a little bit crazy or unbalanced, people's minds are running all the time. Their perceptions of the world are partial, incomplete. They are eaten alive by their egos. They think they see, but they are mistaken; all they do is project their madness, their world, upon the world. There is no clarity, no wisdom in that!
Taisen Deshimaru