Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit.

You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.

To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant

The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

Think with your whole body.

Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.